http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/hearings_bp_did_not_suspend_dr.html
It's pretty obvious at this point that the government is not doing the job it's being paid for.
It lives only as a corporate employee for which "WE" get the bill for..
This is an update from the joint hearings by the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement investigating the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on April 20.
.The Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer -- the key device for shutting off a wild oil well -- had a leak in the days before it failed to operate, which may have required BP to suspend operations under a federal regulation, a BP company man testified Tuesday.
Well site leader Ronald Sepulvado told a Marine Board investigative panel in Kenner that before he wrapped up his stint as BP's top man on the rig four days before the April 20 accident, he reported that one of the control pods on the blowout preventer, or BOP, had a leak.
He said he told his supervisor in Houston, BP team leader John Guide, and assumed that Guide would notify federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service. According to investigators, that never happened.
Federal Regulation 250.451(d) states that if someone drilling in federal waters encounters "a BOP control station or pod that does not function properly" the rig must "suspend further drilling operations until that station or pod is operable."
Asked if that was done, Sepulvado said it wasn't.
The Deepwater Horizon appeared to be out of compliance with another federal regulation requiring independent inspection of a rig's blowout preventer every three to five years.
Investigators have said they had no record of an inspection after the year 2000. Jason Mathews, a member of the Marine Board panel, said the rig was "way past" the inspection requirement in Section 250.446(a) of the code.
