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That he responsibility for safety of drilling operations. >> thats bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didnt work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburtons well sealing work. and halliburton, you can take a guess. >> we understand that the drilling contract to replace the dense drilling flu...

Bp says transocean was hired for its skill and expertise and all of that brings some legal vulnerability. transocean is pushing blame in two different directions, first back at bp saying, yes, we are the experts, but you were directing our actions, and second, theyre pointing to another company. saying look at the company that poured the concrete to mold the pipe in the main well itself. thats way down here on the ocean floor, theyre saying look closely at that because maybe thats where the prob...

And the buyer showed up armed and with accomplices. another 210,000 gallons of oil poured into the gulf of mexico today. 400 million gallons so far. whos to blame? washington being asked that question with the bigwigs from bp, ultimately responsible for the well and transocean, which ran it and halliburton, which helped build it. heres what happened when senators started trying to pin them down. >> i would ask you first, mr. mckay, is bp the party responsible for the leak? >> we dont -- we don...

Of the well and bp are the permit holder and bp have the relationship with the mms, if there was a discussion between somebody and the mms about whether or not it was appropriate to proceed in a particular fashion, that conversation would have taken place between bp and the mms. >> thats transocean blaming bp and the government agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. its the blame game. the circle is complete. once around the board, only this is no game. tom foreman, "keeping them h...

Operator of the well, hired transocean to drill that well. transocean as owner and operator of the deep water horizon drilling rig, had responsibility for safety of drilling operations. frs >> thats bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didnt work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburtons wel...

If you think about it, they are the owners of the oil rig and hire the owners of the rig. and they call the shots. everyone out here, at one time of the accident, was working for bp in one way or another. they had mitt having overarching responsibility. bp says if youre handing out blame, you better look closer at the company we hired to operate that well, the owners of the deep water -- deepwater horizon, the rig over here, and the big device called the blowout preventer on the bottom that was ...

Xrers sharing beyond finger-pointing is muddying up the waters. history will mark this as the bp spill. thats whats going to be in the textbooks. was halliburton or transocean guilty of certain problems associated with bp, yes. all three are guilty in that sense but its british petroleum, who has run a campaign telling everybody, its safe, its safe, we can do this and meanwhile, theyve been drilling at rapid rates and being very reckless considering what would happen if you had a blowout prevent...

Report with definitive evidence until the 1970s with the rickover commission. all im saying is, right now what these three companies are sharing beyond finger-pointing is muddying up the waters. history will mark this as the bp spill. thats whats going to be in the textbooks. was halliburton or transocean guilty of certain problems associated with bp, yes. all three are guilty in that sense but its british petroleum, who has run a campaign telling everybody, its safe, its safe, we can do this an...

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Whether or not it was appropriate to proceed in a particular fashion, that conversation would have taken place between bp and the mms. >> thats transocean blaming bp and the government agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. its the blame game. the circle is complete. once around the board, only this is no game. tom foreman keeping them honest breaks it down for us. >> we know there was a lot of finger-pointing on capitol hill today. we know there is an oil rig lying on the ocean fl...