The Macondo well blowout on April 20 was avoidable, and occurred largely because of a series of bad decisions by the companies and personnel involved that did not take into account the proper risks, according to a partial report released Wednesday by the presidential oil spill commission.
“The well blew out because a number of separate risk factors, oversights, and outright mistakes combined to overwhelm the safeguards meant to prevent just such an event from happening.”