Originally Posted by
treboryerf
There are now news reports saying that it may have been something as simple as a battery that would have closed the valves that was in place that did fail,but you know how the media loves to speculate about what coulda,shoulda,woulda.I do think that the outfit doing the drilling is more at fault than bp,afterall bp contracted that outfit to drill that well and doing it right falls on their hands.If I hired someone to do a job and they screwed it up for what ever reason they would be more to blame than me,unless they told me of the dangers and I told them to go ahead anyway.