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Procedure, to requirements to have people whether there are issues with safety, to come and present to us. >> but somebody records minutes during those meetings and your directives that come as a consequence of those briefings are written down and delivered to the appropriate managers on the -- >> there are minutes of those meetings. >> i beg your pardon? >> there are minutes of those meetings. >> let me ask you, mr. stupak alluded to the fact that should we allow someone who is perhaps not following the best drilling practices to continue to drill. is there any other well to your knowledge, i...

Manage safety and a systematic change in the culture of bp. that's something we have done consistently over the last three years. >> did that systematic change you say you implemented as a result of the baker report account for the reason that at deepwater horizon, when faced with the choice of a cheaper, quicker design, bp chose the cheaper and quickerasing design. did you do that on the basis of recommendations of baker report? >> as i said, we need to wait for the results of the investigation to conclude. if there's evidence whatsoever people put costs ahead of safety in this incident, then...

Systematic change in how we manage safety and a systematic change in the culture of bp. that is something we have done consistently over the last three years. >> did that systematic change that you say you implemented as a result of the baker report. account for the reason that at deep water horizon, when faced with the chase of a cheaper and quicker casing design, or a safer design, bp chose the cheaper and quicker casing design, did you do that on the basis of the recommendations of the baker report? >> as i have said, we need to wait for the results of the investigation to conclude, if ther...

By halliburton. the revelations were presented to the other four oil company executives. henry waxman of michigan asked the other four executives what they would have done differently. >> practices we would not put in place were employed here. >> specifically? >> for example, the casing design, and the mechanical barriers in place appear to be different than we would use. >> it would have been a different well design. we would have run a tie jacquelineer, used a different cement formulation. we would volunteer -- have tested for cement integrity. a locking seal ring before proceeding. >> repor...

Before them. correspondent james rosen reports it was ever man for himself -- every man for himself. >> reporter: within minutes of the five executives appearing before the commerce committee, it must have dawned on the b.p. american chief mckay he had as much to fear from the corporate colleagues as from the hostile lawmakers. >> we would not have drilled the well they did. >> casing design and mechanical barriers in place appear to be different than what we would use. >> the expo facto assurances came after they leaked e-mail internal e-mail sent in the weeks before the deepwater horizon rig...