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>> right. >> and days before this was happening. this seems to me to be the most condemning information that we're getting these days is what was going on there before the blowout, the blowout that killed 11 people. >> i believe that's right, lawrence. the damning piece of evidence here is continuing to drill with one of the control pods on the blowout preventer leaking. the mms regulations, now the boem, whatever we call it today, regulations clearly say that if both of those pods are not operational, you must discontinue drilling, discontinue operations until it's repaired. the leak was repo...

Blowout, the blowout that killed 11 people? >> i believe that's right, lawrence. the damning piece of evidence here is continuing to drill with one of the control pods on the blowout preventer leaking. the mms regulations, now the boem, whatever we call it today, regulations clearly say that if both of those pods are not operational, you must discontinue drilling, discontinue operations until it's repaired. the leak was reported several times and they went ahead and drilled anyway rather than shutting down operations and that's a bad piece of information for both bp and transocean. >> and just...

11 people. >> i believe that's right, lawrence. the damning piece of evidence here is continuing to drill with one of the control pods on the blowout preventer leaking. the mms regulations, now the boem, whatever we call it today, regulations clearly say that if both of those pods are not operational, you must discontinue drilling, discontinue operations until it's repaired. the leak was reported several times and they went ahead and drilled anyway rather than shutting down operations and that's a bad piece of information for both bp and transocean. >> and just to drill this point home, to bor...

The decision to run a long string, at least in part was to do with the long-term integrity of the well. >> well let me be fair to you, because i'm asking you to look with hindsight as to what happened and the decision that was made. but your own engineers warned in advance that this was a risky approach and i'd like to put on the screen what's called the plan review that your engineers prepared in mid-april, warning against the long string of casing as you can see your engineers said if you use the long string of casing, quote it is unlikely to be a successful cement job. you would be unable t...

Look with hindsight as to what happened. and the decision that was made. but, your own engineers warned in advance that this was a risky approach. i'd like to put on the screen what's called the plan review, that your engineers prepared in mid-april, warning against the long string of casing. as you can see your engineers said if you used a long string of casing, quote, it is unlikely to be a successful cement job. you would be unable to fulfill mms regulations. and there would be an open annular to the wellhead. i have that on the screen. those are serious risks. a failed cement job. a violat...