[ale] BP knew of problems 11 months before the rig blew -further OT

[Larry Johnson]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Larry Johnson
<larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Given the importance of this event it's been astonishing to me how
> difficult was is to find a decent pool of basic facts about what
> happened, and what the Deepwater Horizon rig actually represents.
> Most of the reporting is politics, noise, and play by play on the
> capping attempts which often read like sportscasting.
>
> It's an unprecedented operation in a number of ways.  It's the deepest
> oil well in history, for instance (actually kudos to Wikipedia for
> having that near the top of their article ... it's seldom mentioned by
> most of the press).  Given the fact that it's an extreme outlier in
> terms of environmental conditions, the level of cluelessness at both
> BP and within the government shouldn't be surprising.
>
> Larry
>

I'm actually factchecking some of my own stuff, and I may be incorrect
that the current well is the deepest.  The Deepwater Horizon holds the
record, but it may be in a different location.  Will post a correction
later if I'm wrong.

Larry