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Is this going to go to a dry dock for significant repairs? youre looking at two weeks to get down to a port in washington state to do the work. repair time and coming back. thats a significant time. its crunch time for shell. they have three pos to operate in the waters. they may be looking at trying to get a new vessel if the seneca needs dry dock repair. whats interesting is we are in uncharted territory here. most operations in the gulf of mexico dont have the large fleet shell has bring to t...

Necessarily for them to put it down as part of the exploration plan. shame on bp for filling out an application on that. same for the minerals and management service for rubber stamping it and this application was submitted in march of 2009 and accepted in may on the obama administrations watch. they have some explaining to do about their handling of this situation, as well. where is the oversight been on the rigs? what type of oversight was being carried on on that rig on the days leading up to...

Its still disturbing to me we havent had anyone from the federal regulatory side. we really need mr. salazar here, whoever the minerals and management people with were who approved that exploration plan that bp submitted that was woefully inadequate. shame on you mr. hayward for submitting it and shame will on us for accepting it. ive got questions i do need to ask. bp unfortunately is not the first time youve been p in front of our committee. in 2006 ole although you were not ceo in september o...

Words of its critics, rubber stamps the oil industrys action and unable to enforce safety regulation. in 2000, they issued a safety alert calling for offshore drillers in the u.s. to have an additional backup system called and acoustic switch that could prevent oil blowouts like the one in the gulf. they went so far to call it a quote essential component. just three years later after complaints from the oil industry, mms determined it wasnt so essential after all, saying it was too costly and ef...

Regulation. in 2000, they issued a safety alert calling for offshore drillers in the u.s. to have an additional backup system called and acoustic switch that could prevent oil blowouts like the one in the gulf. they went so far to call it essential component. just three years later after complaints from the oil industry, mns determined it wasnt so essential after all, saying it was too costly and effective, never mind bp is required to use it on rigs in two other countries. stuart smith is an en...

The gulf. they went so far as to call it, quote, an essential component. two years later after complaints from the oil industry, mms determined it wasnt so essential saying it would be too costly and ineffective, never mind the fact that bp is required to use it on rigs in two other countries. >> lets load up. >> reporter: stewart smith is an environmental attorney who has won dozens of case with the oil industry and is representing fishermen put out of work because of the deep water horizon dis...

Additional backup system called an acoustic switch that could prevent oil blowouts like the one in the gulf. they went so far to call it essential component. just three years later after complaints from the oil industry, mms determined it wasnt so essential afterall, saying would be too costly and ineffective. never mind the fact that bp is required to use it on rigs in two other countries. >> lets load up. >> reporter: stuart smith has won dozens of cases against the oil industry and is recomme...

Quote, essential component. three years later after the complaints from the oil industry, mms determined it wasnt so essential after all, saying it would be too costly and ineffective. never mind the fact that bp is required to use it on rigs in two other countries. >> lets load up. >> reporter: stewart smith is an environmental attorney who has won dozens of cases against the oil industry send a representing fishermen put out of work because of the deep water horizon disaster. we flew over the ...

Average of 11.8 million gallons of oil spilled each year, in the u.s., from a variety of reasons and since in the the average has dropped to 1.5 million gallons a year. but the plan for -- exploration plan for this well, bp said in a filing to the government, last year, bill said a spill was unlikely and even if it happened, quote, no significant adverse impact was expected. turned out to be wrong. >> and bp as and the mineral management service, which supervises the rig, and, it was going to gi...

Average of 11.8 million gallons of oil spilled each year, in the u.s., from a variety of reasons and since in the the average has dropped to 1.5 million gallons a year. but the plan for -- exploration plan for this well, bp said in a filing to the government, last year, bill said a spill was unlikely and even if it happened, quote, no significant adverse impact was expected. turned out to be wrong. >> and bp as and the mineral management service, which supervises the rig, and, it was going to gi...