From April 2006: BP ignored "dangerous condition". of Alaskan pipeline

[gatorboy]

Financial Times
April 17, 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/41ab9bee-cd75-11da-afcd-0000779e2340.html

BP staff feared for safety
By Sheila McNulty in Houston
Published: April 16 2006 22:02 |
Last updated: April 16 2006 22:02

A safety audit of BP's biggest refinery, obtained by the Financial
Times, reveals the UK oil giant deferred maintenance and delayed
repairs to the extent that staffers concluded equipment was in a
"dangerous condition".

The views in that 2005 audit  conducted by an independent
consultancy  echoed those of BP staffers as far away as Alaska, who
have warned for four years that staff and the environment were at
significant risk, as accidents continued unabated.

In the past year, both locations have experienced severe accidents.
The audited refinery in Texas City exploded in 2005, killing 15
people and injuring an estimated 500 in the deadliest refinery
accident for more than a decade. Last month, BP Alaska suffered the
biggest-ever oil spill at Prudhoe Bay, North America's largest oil
field. There was at least one other leak last week.

That BP operations in Texas and Alaska have suffered such significant
lapses, amid employee complaints about safety, supports the US
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent
federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical
accidents, in questioning BP's safety culture.

[ClintonTyree]

1. They had to wait for the right time............

to shut it down. With oil at record price levels, NOW is the "right" time. :grr: This will drive up the price even higher so they won't lose a nickel while the pipeline is down. All on the American consumer's dime. Thanks, Big Oil! :mad:

[gratuitous]

2. BP is just barely scraping by

You can't expect them to do maintenance on their own pipeline, can you? You heartless, communistic socialistic bastards always expect oil companies to foot their own bills, don't you?

"BP's financial performance has never been better, thanks to sky-high oil prices. The company earned a record $7.27 billion in its second quarter, 30 percent more than a year earlier, and had net profit of $12.9 billion in the first half of 2006." Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/25/business/BP.php

What would BP's profits be if they'd had to fix their own pipeline? I'll bet you never considered the impact it would have on the CEO's benefit package did you? Not for one second.

[gatorboy]

3. You're right.

Posting this was pretty selfish of me. I demand a raise in my gas price just to sooth their pain. :P