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Reservoir. you dont take chances. i will be interested to hear the explanation of why this design was chosen. >> we will hear that explanation, further along in the testimony. so far, you had a culture of corporate complacency and that put profits over safety and that led to the deepwater horizon explosion and the tragedy that we see in the gulf of mexico, but from the most senior republican to speak so far, something quite different. he said, yes, bp should be held accountable but joe barton, r...

Leading bps response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the macondo well but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bps corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig called macon ochdo a nightm well. other bp employees predicted the cement job would fa...

From the well, which may have led to a scaled-back response. the response plan was identical to other oil company plans. in a hearing tuesday exxon mobil ceo admitted that once the spills occur, he says, "we are not well equipped to handle them." all the other oil companies testified at tuesdays hearing that they would not have drilled the well as bp did. >> this is the chairman of the subcommittee that is about to question the ceo of bp and he is the one who says he expects tony hayward to be s...

The companies had to prove before theyd be allowed to risk all of us by drilling in deep waters off american shores, if there were high expectations, could they really raise the bar in terms of whats expected from these companies on safety? >> of course, they could. if the cop on the beat is, in fact, threatening to punish, severely, an oil company because they are running the risk of endangering the entire gulf coast, i think theres no question, that they would have seen a response. but after a...

Before theyd be allowed to risk all of us by drilling in deep waters off american shores, if there were high expectations, could they really raise the bar in terms of whats expected from these companies on safety? >> of course, they could. if the cop on the beat is, in fact, threatening to punish, severely, an oil company because they are running the risk of endangering the entire gulf coast, i think theres no question, that they would have seen a response. but after a while, this boosterism led...

Production and the personnel leading bps response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the well, but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bps corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig a nightmare well. other bp employees predicted that the cement j...

Some say as high as 70,000 barrels a day. best guess we think, at least the people ive been talking to, is 25,000, 20,000 barrels a day. >> okay. so can you tell me why oil companies dont have potential fixes already planned out? itout? it sure seems like bp is kind of stumbling its way through. i mean, is that a wrong assumption? is that the case at all? or did they have a plan for this? >> you know, i -- these companies come so reliant on technology, especially in this depth of water, that i t...

Weve known that. people ended up being indicted over some of the problems, so how could they come in and not take this by the horns? >> i think mms, which has been an extremely troubled agency and the culture in that agency during the bush years became so compromised that without question, it is an agency that has to be completely overhauled. and what happened was bp constantly promised that an accident could not happen. that it was impossible to happen. and what happened was that boosterism led...

>> the -- >> expansion of it? >> bp and other oil companies engaged in a whole generation of boosterism. that accidents couldnt happen. they actually said nothing could go wrong here. and obviously, they werent prepared for a worst-case scenario. and boosterism led to complacency. complacency led to a disaster. the only way drilling can begin again in a serious way, is if like president carter naming john kennedy, the president of dartmouth to do a complete evaluation after three mile island. we...

Wouldnt be nylons and hair, and i think its very discouraging obviously for the people who live down in the gulf, but its dismaying i think to every american to think that this is the level of response to such a catastrophic event that the oil industry can provide. >> how much of this was a failure of oversight on the part of government officials? >> i think that there was an assumption that an accident could not happen. i think that bp kept saying, dont worry, an accident cannot happen. and in ...