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There's a lot of information to gather. of course, for a human, it is easy to make mistakes. the robot can handle it much more easily. all this data allows the company running at the robots, cognite, running the robots, cognite, to build a digital twin, a full, virtual 3—d model of the rig. that map allows the robots to run autonomously, and the images taken can be compared over time to see if something has changed and might need repair. it's very different to how things currently work. at the moment, i think it is every two years that we do a complete ex inspection of all the explosion—pr...

At the moment, i think it's every two years that we do a complete ex inspection of all the explosion—proof boxes — electrical boxes — on the drill floor or various parts of the rig. if you had a robot on board, you could be doing heat tracing each month. you could be doing ex inspection whenever you choose, in fact. and doing a full inspection means looking very closely in some very hard—to—reach places. as you can see on this rig back here, we have a very high drilling tower. they call it the derek. you typically need to inspect that pretty often to look for loose bolts and things l...

Out of your smoke detector in your house, not wanting to be bothered by an alarm in the middle of the night that could have given rig worker morse time to evacuate the drill floor and not get trapped there in the explosion. there were alarms that went off, but not the general alarm, apparently. they also had a problem with, you know, months before this with rubber gaskets blowing up in the well. they had computer problems. but the most significant thing i think today that he said was that they had failed -- they had bypassed a system that would have isolated a potential ignition source in the ...

Cutting corners. what would their motivation be? >> to finish the job faster, to save money. >> you think this was about saving time, saving money? >> well, yes. they were overbudget on it, so, yeah. they were cutting corners for time and money. >> two of the men who survived the bp oil rig fire and collapse are trying to explain an argument they say they witnessed on the platform about 12 hours before the first explosion. it was an argument, they say, between transocean and bp managers. >> the meeting was a pre-tower meeting basically. they go over the day's events, what's going to be taking ...

You were saying they were cutting corners. what would their motivation be? >> to finish the job faster, to save money. >> you think this was about saving time, saving money? >> well, yes. they were overbudget on it, so, yeah. they were cutting corners for time and money. >> two of the men who survived the bp oil rig fire and collapse are trying to explain an argument they say they witnessed on the platform about 12 hours before the first explosion. it was an argument, they say, between transocean and bp managers. >> the meeting was a pre-tower meeting basically. they go over the day's events, ...