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The blowout preventers is a principal question and probably the underlying question we have at the national commission. last week i interviewed marvin odom, the president of shell in aspen, colorado, and he said there were multiple levels of preventive efforts that other companies including shell take, that when they take when they drill a well, they put in layers and layers of cementing before they open the pipe, the riser pipe and that bp did none of them. it is in view of most of the energy industry. virtually everybody i talked to has deep water drilling that this was a system that did not have the number of redundancies in terms of containment that the rest of them do. not only that, one that was peculiarly in need of it, because it s a highly productive and high pressure oilfield. the questions arise why were those redundancies not put in and that is the first question the president gave us in the executive order that created a ....

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