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Change both the organization and some of the processes. >> thank you. since the deepwater horizon incident, have you made changes and what are those? will you submit these to us for the record? >> we have made changes to testing procedures on b.o.p.s. we have made changes to the intensity with which well sites leaders are aware of well control procedures and a variety of other interventions that are predicated on what we learned from the incidents so far. and as we learn more, we will make more changes as we deem roept appropriate. and i would be very happy to give you the details of the chang...

Accepting the risk. so if we use your own words, if you're going to hold bp accountable, then we have to manage the risk. shouldn't leadership at bp be held accountable here? >> there is no doubt that i've focused on safe reliable operations. we've made major changes in everything we do over the last three years. we changed people -- >> changes have made since april 20th, when the bp deepwater horizon exploded. what changes were made then? >> based on what we know so far, we have made changes with respect to the testing and evaluation of blowout preventers. we've made changes with respect to i...

Operations. we've made major changes in everything we do over the last three years. we changed people -- >> what changes have you made since april 20th when the bp deepwater horizon exploded? what changes were made then? >> based on what we know so far, we have made changes with respect to the testing and evaluation of blow-out preventers. we've made changes with respect to insuring that people who are likely to be dealing with well control are up to date and fully validated for well control procedures. and as we learn more about what happened here, we will continue to make changes. >> okay, t...

And the last three careers, we've invested who than $14 billion in plant integrity. >> what happened here? the june 14th letter we put out the other day went through five major areas. the head of the ceos of the oil companies before this committee tuesday all said, you did it wrong. they never would have done a well this way. you made decisions whether to a casing or the string with the tie-back, which everyone said the tie-back would have been safer. the lockdown sleeve. centralizers instead of doing 21 as recommended, you only do six. that defies this safety emphasis, does it not? >> we've l...

>> there is no doubt that i've focused on safe, reliable operations. we've made major changes in everything we do over the last three years. we changed people -- >> what changes have you made since april 20 this when the bp deepwater horizon exploded? what kheupbgs were made then? >> based on what we know so far we have made changes with respect to the testing and evaluation of blowout prevent teres, we've made changes with respect to ensuring that people who are likely to be dealing with well control are up to date and fully validated for well control procedures. and as we learn more about wh...