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Successful cement job due to formulation breakdown. this is an internal bp confidential document from mid april. have you seen this document before? >> i saw it as a consequence of the letter -- but you did not see it at the time? but there were bp folks who saw it, correct? do your knowledge? >> there were certainly bp people who saw this. >> okay. the document said there would be potential need verify with a bond log and perform a remedial cement job, but bp chose the riskier approach. secondl...

The -- >> but you did not site at the time? but there were bp folks who say the, correct, to your knowledge. >> there were bp people who saw this. >> so the document says there would be a potential need to verify with a bond loss and perform a remedial cement job. but bp chose the riskier approach. secondly, bp comoas the riskier centralizer option. experts told us in testimony to this committee the best practice would have been to use 21 centralizers, but bp only used 6. if you take a look at t...

Document from bp. have you seen this before? >> i have seen this as a consequence -- >> but you did not see it at the time? >> no. >> but there were bp people who saw this, is that correct? to your knowledge? >> there were certainly bp who saw this. >> so the document says there would be an independent need to verify and perform a remedial cement job but bp chose the riskier approach. secondly bp chose the riskier centralizer option. experts have told us in testimony to this committee that the b...