Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100511:23:04:00
This question. because it involves the litigation here. it seems to me drill money is used as a counterforce used in to keep the oil in the ground. is it your understanding that the company doing the drilling did a short-cut that caused this explosion and damage? >> chris, there's no other explanation. look, they understand the physics of this just like you or i do. you put pressure on the well, it keeps the methane gas down in the well. if you take the pressure off, methane gas comes up the drill column and explodes. this isn't something new to them. they've had it happen 40 times on rigs jus...
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