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Tests. what were those tests? i mean, a simple test like looking to see if batteries work? i mean, the blowout preventer was only down in the ocean, the sea floor like two months. i mean, the batteries don't go dead in two months. you have loose fittings. you have leaking hi drawlics. you have a machine that, a blowout preventer that was miswired. they're trying to make the machine pinch off the supply of oil and it won't work. they can't figure out why. the equipment they have on the sea floor are two different things. they didn't match up. it was miswired. just total incompetence. >> there w...

The well owner and in accordance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so positively yesterday. >> halliburton, one of the world's largest oil service companies, says it had secured the well through a procedure called cementing, and t...

I'm thomas roberts. here's what's happened. bp delivered the most detailed account to date to what was the oil leak. a dead battery and leak failed the blowout preventer. two pressure tests should have warned crews of potential problems with the well. speaking of the white house, after meeting with afghan president karzai president obama said plans for withdrawing troops next year remain on track. the justice department filed its first official response to state challenges to health care reform. the mandate falls within congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. a boycott of busine...

Conducted by the drilling contractor at the direction of the well owner and in accordance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so positively yesterday. >> halliburton, one of the world's largest oil service companies, says it had sec...

Direction of the well owner and in accord dance with mms requirements. we understand that halliburton was instructed to record drill pipe pressure during this test. after being advised by the drilling contract of a negative test had been completed, halliburton cementing personnel were placed on standby. >> today congressman henry waxman revealed the truth about the supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer and the cementing test halliburton described so positively yesterday. >> halliburton, one of the world's largest oil service companies, says it had secured the well through a procedure called c...