BP Claims Halliburton Destroyed Oil-Spill Evidence

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Source: WSJ (Google title for full article)

BP PLC is alleging that Halliburton Co. destroyed evidence in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 that demonstrated that the cement formula the firm used on the drilling operation was flawed.

The claim, made Monday in a federal civil-court filing in New Orleans, is the latest in a continuing volley of accusations between the companies as they face potentially huge civil and criminal penalties stemming from the 2010 accident in the Gulf of Mexico that killed a total of 11 people and led to the largest offshore oil spill in the U.S. history.

Halliburton has previously said that it believes the cement mix it recommended that BP use on the well was stable. It has argued that the well failed because of poor engineering and design choices made by BP.

BP argued in its filing that Halliburton conducted tests following the April 20, 2010, accident that determined that the same cement formula used on the Deepwater Horizon well did have problems.

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1. Nobody will be punished for this

Oh, some low-level flunky or one of the guys who got killed in the initial explosion will be blamed, but the folks who cash the big paychecks will walk away scot-free, and none of the companies involved will sustain any damage they can't recoup with two days' operational profits.

[Kolesar]

4. None of upper management was punished when engineers lied about inspections at Davis-Besse nuke

Three engineers were guilty of backdating inspection reports. First Energy got off with no fines on the company or upper management.

[No Elephants]

5. And Americans will be good little docile sheeple about it, just as they are about everything.

We make a perfect pair, our government and us.

[malthaussen]

2. It's interesting to see the big dogs turn on each other

Maybe they'll send their private security forces to bomb each other's HQs or something.

-- Mal

[wordpix]

12. agreed. Keep showing those documents to prove the others guilty and

maybe the Justice Dept. and EPA will finally DO SOMETHING about the multitude of violations.

[Angry Dragon]

3. throw them all in jail until the case is settled

[Hotler]

9. +1 n/t

[Scuba]

6. Who could have seen that coming? n/t

[a simple pattern]

7. I wonder who made the cement formula of building 7!

haha j/k

[NYC_SKP]

8. "They did it." "No, THEY did it."......

Later they meet up, tee time at 9:30 at the course.

:puke:

[Hotler]

10. k&r n/t

[Overseas]

11. K&R.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. This should be real big headline news! I mean BIG!