Federal report says bad management on Deepwater Horizon meant poor safety on Gulf rig and dozens of rigs are at risk today
A federal board investigation into the 2010 BP oil spill concludes that a last-ditch safety device on the underwater well had multiple failures, wasn’t tested properly and still poses a risk for many rigs drilling today.
The report issued Thursday by the US chemical safety board zeroes in on what went wrong with the blowout preventer and blames bad management and operations. They found faulty wiring in two places, a dead battery and a bent pipe in the hulking device. And that, they said, led to the dumping of 172m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the nation’s worst offshore oil disaster.