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And they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your allegations are unfounded and that the atlantis platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. >> and my answer to that would be that when that attorney, westall, wrote that letter in january, she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two-faced problem. you have the public face with the tony haywards go...

Safety award. whats your feeling about mmss performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping whatever bp want ed thm to? >> exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement in regulation of bp on the atlantis project. we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both, to get the mms to take notice. theyre just not checking these drawings at all, okay? and they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in...

I was control supervisor for the atlantis platform, about 80 miles south of the deepwater. what i found was that bp is not completing their engineering. this is something ive never seen on any other major company ive worked for, engineering and owner companies. because of that, theyve created a very dangerous situation, dangerous for the operators. because, you know, they dont have the latest information to shut down the rig in an emergency. very dangerous for the whole gulf. its a time bomb wai...

Outcome of multiple investigations, including the marine board. >> but during question time by the house panel hayward came off much like the gulf spill itself, elusive and highly frustrating. mr. hayward utterly failed to explain the rationale of key decisions, including whether such decisions were made to save time and money. hayward didnt remember or didnt know or didnt have a personal involvement in key decisions, he said. lets bring in as promised, kenneth abbott, former project control sup...

Marine board. >> but during question time by the house panel, hayward came off like the gulf spill itself. elusive and highly frustrating. he failed to explain the rationale behind key decisions, including whether such decisions were made to save time and money. hayward didnt remember or didnt know or didnt have a personal involvement in key decisions, he said. lets bring in as promised, kenneth abbott, contracted by bp. he has filed a lawsuit demanding the government shut down another bp oil pl...

Calls on these allegations but in a letter written to congress in january their attorney said quote the company is compliant with all federal requirements and atlantis has been operating so safely it received an mms award. they went on to say bp has reviewed the allegations and found them to be unsubstantiated. these are all pretty damming allegations if true a disaster on the atlantis could be 10 times worse than what happened on the horizon. plus keep in mind the atlantis platform was built th...

>> his name is ken abbott and he came forward or he was hired in august, 2008. he was hired to manage the document for the atlantis platform. when he discovered there were such great document deficiencies he went to management, he worked with them to try to correct the problem, and he was faced with consultant resistance. in early 2009 his contract was ended and he went forward to the department of the interior minute merle management the agency charged with regulating offshore platforms. he als...

The serious catastrophe unfolding right now in the gulf of mexico with the deep water horizon the explosion and sinki sinking, but the atlantis platform is in far deeper water almost 1 and a half times deeper water and currently producing 200 thousand barrels of oil per day. in just two-days there could be an oil spill. this is from bps own documents that would be greater than the exxon val disease. an explosion or a leak that would be many times larger than what we are seeing right now in the g...

The serious catastrophe unfolding right now in the gulf of mexico with the deep water horizon the explosion and sinki sinking, but the atlantis platform is in far deeper water almost 1 and a half times deeper water and currently producing 200 thousand barrels of oil per day. in just two-days there could be an oil spill. this is from bps own documents that would be greater than the exxon val disease. an explosion or a leak that would be many times larger than what we are seeing right now in the g...

>> his name is ken abbott and he came forward or he was hired in august, 2008. he was hired to manage the document for the atlantis platform. when he discovered there were such great document deficiencies he went to management, he worked with them to try to correct the problem, and he was faced with consultant resistance. in early 2009 his contract was ended and he went forward to the department of the interior minute merle management the agency charged with regulating offshore platforms. he als...