the operator who runs the dynamic positioning system actually inputted the wrong data, had corrupted data and pushed it off location. are there upgrades? department of interior is bragging there have been safety upgrades. you and i have talked about whether or not you can do better inspections of your lead parachute, as i put it before. but are there upgrades that could be made to a blowout preventer like this one that would make it less like the deepwater horizon, that would make it more likely to five the blowout that deep sixed that preventer? it required a complete redesign, they talked about that all through the report, redesigning the rams. the only thing they can do to existing devices is redundancy. if you have two sheer rams that cut the pipe, hopefully one of those will work. just having one on the deepwater
the operator who runs the dynamic positioning system actually inputted the wrong data, had corrupted data and pushed it off location. are there upgrades? department of interior is bragging there have been safety upgrades. you and i have talked about whether or not you can do better inspections of your lead parachute, as i put it before. but are there upgrades that could be made to a blowout preventer like this one that would make it less like the deepwater horizon, that would make it more likely to five the blowout that deep sixed that preventer? it required a complete redesign, they talked about that all through the report, redesigning the rams. the only thing they can do to existing devices is redundancy. if you have two sheer rams that cut the pipe, hopefully one of those will work. just having one on the deepwater horizon, obviously even that failed, it was complete failure.