let me try this. in the time i have left, this has been asked several times and i don t think we ve gotten an answer yet. we know about the emails from bp employees expressing concerns about the casing procedures, including an april 15th email from your drilling engineer, brian morel, who described the well as a nightmare well. how much were the drilling engineers consulted in the decision to use the single string casing? was this a bottomup decision in which the people connected to drilling the operation had influence, or did it come from the top down. the as i understand it, from the discussion with our investigation team and review of the documents, there was a discussion taking place amongst the drilling engineering team responsible for the well. that s how the decision and