Lamar McKay BP U.S. President talking Gulf oil disaster
Post date: May 12, 2010 2:45:13 PM
BP's Opening Statement on Gulf Oil Spill
That Monitors Oil Drilling 12 May 2010
The Minerals Management Service brings in an average of $13 billion a year.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he planned to cut the agency that
oversees the industry, the Minerals Management Service, in two. One
office would be responsible for public safety and environmental
enforcement and the other in charge of leasing and revenue collection.
Details of the proposal are still being worked out.
Doug Suttles BP
chief operating officer
Tues. May 11 2010 |
Mr. Lamar McKay, BP
American president
and chairman,
offers his opening statement to the senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources regarding the Gulf oil rig explosion and subsequent spill.
BP, Transocean, Haliburton nobody responsible ?
McKay, Newman, Probert.....
In their first testimony since the spill, top executives of BP,
which owns the well; Transocean, which owned the drilling
rig and did much of the work; and Halliburton, which provided
various services, including cement work on the drill hole,
all sought to shift blame.
“As a responsible party under the Oil Pollution Act,
we will carry out our responsibilities,” said Lamar McKay,
president and chairman of BP America. But he added that
Transocean “had responsibility for the safety of the drilling
operations.”
Steven L. Newman, president and chief executive of
Transocean, said that the accident had to have arisen from
elements of the work done by other companies.
“Were all appropriate tests run on the cement and the casing?”
he asked, apparently implicating Halliburton.
Tim Probert, chief of health, safety and environment for
Halliburton, said that all work on the casing by his company
was carried out “as directed by the well owner,” meaning BP.
source: cnbc.com
Related: BP Alaska oil spill Capitol hearing 2006
Robert Malone, Steve Marshall, Peter Davies
Senate Holds Hearing On BP Alaska Pipeline Failure 2006
WASHINGTON - SEP-12-2006: (L-R) BP Exploration Alaska President Steve
Marshall, BP American President and Chairman Robert Malone and BP Vice
President and chief Economist Peter Davies testify before the U.S. Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources about the recent BP pipeline
failure in the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska, on Capitol Hill September 12,
2006 in Washington, DC. Malone and Marshall took full responsibility for
the pipeline failure and outlined what they planned to do in the future to
prevent accidents in the field.
source: life.com