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	Name:	MAJ USA RET -
	Subject:	Insurance is not the answer
	Date:	5/26/2010 6:07:06 PM

Where is the negligence? I don't think BP is negligent unless they did or didn't do something that was outside the standards of practice or would have obviously been done differently by another driller. Remember, the rumblings coming up the drill string and data from the bit are usually neither consistent nor constant and much of the decision making is intuitive. Something at the bit could have stopped the drill string which, weighing hundreds of tons, does NOT come to a stop. If it snapped at the interface between ocean floor and ocean water, It could easily have destroyed the blow-out preventer. Perhaps the string was at its elastic limit when they stuck the mother of all gas pockets.

Suppose there were a momentary glitch in the GPS system and the platform could not stay auto-positioned over the hole. Whose fault is that?

In the military we have a phrase for what happened to BP: OBE - Overcome By Events.

Whatever - the government needs to stay the hail out of the way! Leave the mother-of-all-undersea-blow-outs to the professionals.