Investigations Expand List Of BP’s Drill-Program Failures
Congress, engineers and oil industry executives have identified a list of flawed decisions made by BP and others—made under pressure to speed up work and reduce cost—that may be behind the April 20 fatal explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
The explosion killed 11 workers and led to the eruption of oil from BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.