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Step top protect the health of their workers. will you commit to provide the national institute of occupational health and safety and the centers for disease control with the information they need to protect these workers? >> we'll provide all information requested as quickly as possible. >> the head of the national institute of occupational health and safety testified yesterday that you are not doing that. will you provide all of the information that they have requested of you? >> we are endeavoring to provide all the information requests we received and we'll do it for them. >> the equivocat...

Delegation to the obama administration pleading with them to cut short this moratorium, not so much for the oil rig workers themselves, but the other people involved. because for every man on that rig, there could be ten or more support workers whose jobs are in jeopardy. there's one boat left for this oil field cleaning company. one last bit of oil and drilling mud to scrub. >> once this job is finished this boat will no longer have a job because of the moratorium. >> reporter: that's how the dominos fall. the president shuts down deepwater drilling which dry docks the boats that supply the r...

Exposed to these chemicals in ways that can impact on their health. bp has dumped 30,000 gallons of drilling mud in the ocean. drilling mud is often made using synthetic oils and other chemicals. and in this case, also may have used significant quantities of anti-freeze, which is toxic. mr. hayward, will you commit to disclosing the ingredients of the drilling mud? >> yes, we will. i believe off of the watter that's gone into the ocean is water-based mud with no toxicity whatsoever. >> will you also commit to disclosing all other measurem t measurements you have made related to chemical, oil a...

Centralizers than some folks were recommending. is that -- i'll leave out motortation but there was a choice of more centralizers or more. more costs more, fewer costs less. which choice did bp make? >> the decision taken by the engineering team at the time, which was a technical judgment, was to use fewer centralizers rather than more. it's not always true more is better. >> bp chose at deepwater horizon not to circulate drilling mud that would have cleaned out the well. it chose a lighter saltwater based for the cementing procedure. is that correct? >> the procedure to displace the mud was a...

I'll ask you again, there were fewer casing centralizers than some folks were recommending, is that -- i'll leave out motivation, but there was a choice of more casing centralizers or fewer casing centralizers. more costs more, fewer costs less, which choice did bp make at deep water horizon? >> the decision taken by the engineering team at the time which was a technical judgment was to use fewer centralizers rather than more. it is not always true that more is better. >> and bp chose at deep water horizon not to circulate drilling mud that would have cleaned oud the well, it chose a lighter s...