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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...

To the top of the well. the safety document says if you use the liner and tie-back approach, which is what exxonmobil and other companies said you should have used, you would have avoided or lessened these risks. and here's what the plan review said. if you use the liner there would be less issue with landing it shallow. it would be a second barrier to gas in the annulus, and a higher chance for a successful cement job. now you said that bp was supposed to be focused like a laser on safety. yet bp apparently overruled the warnings of its own engineers and chose the more dangerous option. how c...