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Secretary salazar and the president sent their teams down to investigate every rig out of 33 rigs, a couple of minor infractions on two rigs that were immediately fixed all the others passed with all the safety s -- safety standards that are an glide on these rigs. these been doing these processes for years. this industry has drilled over 600 wells in much deeper depths than what was dilled on this well. like i said this is a one time phenomenon in an event that was an accident. >> greta: im hop...

Secretary salazar and the president sent their teams down to investigate every rig out of 33 rigs, a couple of minor infractions on two rigs that were immediately fixed all the others passed with all the safety s -- safety standards that are an glide on these rigs. these been doing these processes for years. this industry has drilled over 600 wells in much deeper depths than what was dilled on this well. like i said this is a one time phenomenon in an event that was an accident. >> greta: im hop...

Apologize, that got the headlines and the substance of what he said was largely ignored. >> paul: let me have a chance to put the genie back in the bottle. >> usually when theres an airline crash the rest of the industry doesnt attack or distance itself from the airline that had the accident. in this case, you see the rest of the oil industry distancing itself from bp and saying we wouldnt have drilled that well in the same way. >> because they dont have the long experience that the airline indu...

Thats what got the headlines and it was the substance of what he said was largely ignored. >> let me get a chance to put the genie back in the bottle, it didnt work. its out for good. >> usually when theres an airline crash, the rest the airline industry doesnt attack or distance itself from the airline that had the accident. in this case, you see the rest of the oil industry distancing itself from b.p. and saying we wouldnt have drilled that well in the same way that they did. why arent they do...

>> if he hadnt used apologize, that got the headlines and the substance of what he said was largely ignored. >> paul: let me have a chance to put the genie back in the bottle. >> usually when theres an airline crash the rest of the industry doesnt attack or distance itself from the airline that had the accident. in this case, you see the rest of the oil industry distancing itself from bp and saying we wouldnt have drilled that well in the same way. >> because they dont have the long experience t...

Change both the organization and some of the processes. >> thank you. since the deepwater horizon incident, have you made changes and what are those? will you submit these to us for the record? >> we have made changes to testing procedures on b.o.p.s. we have made changes to the intensity with which well sites leaders are aware of well control procedures and a variety of other interventions that are predicated on what we learned from the incidents so far. and as we learn more, we will make more ...

Made a commitment to the bp organization to institute stronger global processes that had not existed, including a safety management process which was in progress. i dont think it was completed yet. like chevron or exxon or shell, safety management processes are in place to prevent this very thing from happening. >> when the current ceos of the other big oil companies testified yesterday, they all said to a man they would not have done what bp did here, the way they put the casing in, the way the...

2007 report that was scathing of bps culture. we still have problems with alaska. you said you were going to hold people accountable. who we going to hold accountable here? >> weve engaged in a systemic change at bp over the last three years. we have begun to change the culture. im not denying that there isnt more to do. but we have made dramatic changes in the people behave in our organization, the skills and capabilities they have. weve invested heavily into that weve changed significantly the...

Refinery explosion in texas city, texas and alaskan oil pipeline spill? >> i think we acknowledged in 2005 and 2006 that we had serious issues. and as a consequence, set out to the implement systemtic change in the culture and safety of bp. i set the tone from the top by saying very clearly safe, reliable operations were our number one priority. we invested billions of dollars in the integrity of our plant. weve recruited many thousands of engineers and technologists into our company, including ...

>> weve engaged in a systematic change at bp over the last three years. we have begun to change the culture. im not denying that there isnt more to do, but we have made dramatic changes in the people we have in our organization, the skills and capabilities they have. weve invested heavily into that. weve changed significantly the processes that we use to manage our operations and most importantly, perhaps, weve made safe, reliable operations the core of the company. the it is the thing that i ta...