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Gulf oil spill probe: Diagrams didn’t match key safety equipment
WASHINGTON — In the days after a oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from the equipment’s owner didn’t match the supposedly failsafe device’s current configuration, Congressional investigators said Wednesday.

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ANALYSIS: Inquiry reveals oil firms' free reign on drill safety Earthtimes (press release) … into the sinking of a Gulf of Mexico oil rig has exposed deep gaps in government oversight of drilling companies, amid a looming ecological disaster. … Kenner hearing: Marshall Islands-flagged oil rig in Gulf spill was reviewed in …NOLA.com Updates from oil rig explosion hearings: Drill inspector wasn't responsible …NOLA.com Oil companies had free hand on key US drilling safety rules – SummaryEarthtimes (press release) all 854 news articles »

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Oil execs quizzed on safety, BP tries new well fix
By Tom Doggett and Steve Gorman

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Updates from oil rig explosion hearings: Drill inspector wasn’t responsible for collecting key safety data
Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-PicayuneEric Neal, an inspector with Minerals Management Service, testifies Tuesday on to the joint MMS and U.S. Coast Guard investigation of the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf. 4:25 p.m. The last…

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Oil company safety records: a black hole
Before you buy an oil stock, you can look at how it stacks up against its peers by pulling up the different companies’ earnings growth estimates. You can compare their debt loads, production rates, and dozens of arcane measures of performance. But there’s one crucial metric that you’ll be hard pressed to find: safety records.

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Oil companies' history of ducking safety improvements before big spills … Slate Magazine If the already-tenuous deal unravels, then the Gulf oil spill will not just be an environmental disaster. It will also be a political one. Gulf Wildlife 'Dead Zone' Keeps GrowingDiscovery News The Branding of the "Gulf Oil Spill"Daily Green Special report: Will the cleanup make the BP oil spill worse?Reuters Newsweek –Common Dreams (press release) –New York Times (blog) all 176 news articles »

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Transocean Safety Record Questioned in Wake of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Another player in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster is attracting scrutiny today. Transocean LTD, the Swiss company that owned and leased the doomed rig to BP, has apparently faced safety questions before. Transocean is the world’s biggest deepwater driller. The Deepwater Horizon Rig was one of 140 offshore rigs the company operated. According […]

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