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North sea and it is used by bp on all of its north sea rigs. it is called an accostic regulator device and it can remotely turn or shut off the pipe in the event of a blowout. they did not have one on this pipe. they were excused from having that in a 2003 meeting with dick cheney in which he said -- he absolved the oil industry from installing the safety devices in its offshore rigs. they also didn't have a dope-well valve, apparently, which is another valve that is 200 feet below the surface of the sand, another fail safe device they could have used to shut off the pipe. apparently, bp was a...

[ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when you're ready to move. bobby kennedy will we eventually find out who what, where, when, why? >> well, the coast guard and the management agency is currently doing a postmortem. the -- what they are focusing now is the absence of a number of piece of equipment that could have provided a fail safe for this operation, larry, one that was apparently no acoustic regulator device which is a device that could remotely shut off the valve. there was a manual device but the manual device was a button that was at the precise location where the fire started s...

Series of equipment and operational failures if the largest oil and oil service companies in the world had been more careful, 11 lives might have been saved and our coastlines protected. >> what specific equipment and operational failures did investigators find? there were four known problems with the blowout preventer, which was supposed to be the fail-safe to cut off the flow of oil and gas. part of the prevention process is literally to cut the cord with the drill pipe. but the shears were only strong enough to cut through the pipe, not the joints that connect to the pieces of the pipe toge...