Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Slow down there sausage. Transocean and Halliburton were subcontractors. BP has had over 750 fines/warnings in the last 5 years when other oil companies averaged 2 or 3. What is most important here is BP had the final word in all decisions when it came to that rig. BP hired Transocean and BP hired Halliburton and it's others and failed at their management abilities.  |
yup. + the law states that the entity who is leasing the operation and owns the oil produced, has the liability. that said, bp, by design, operates via a confusing papertrail of ownership, they don't own any drilling operations, all leased, moreover, the deepwater horizon, like all offshore rigs, is classified as a ship, and bp flagged the ship deepwater horizon under the marshall islands to bypass u.s. regulations.