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Alternatively BP followed the lax standards required by the US rather than the stricter standards required in the North Sea. If it had applied all the extra eur
by kujhygtfghj 16y ago
Alternatively BP followed the lax standards required by the US rather than the stricter standards required in the North Sea.
If it had applied all the extra european safety standards then somebody else could have extracted the oil more cheaply and would have outbid them for the rights.
Then this would be a shell or esso or gulf oil disaster.
Blaming the foreigners for the US safety regs is like a country with no driving tests or traffic laws blaming Ford for car accidents.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoWhat evidence is there that BP fully lived up to US safety regulations? I'm not sure that's the case but I don't have all the details. Personally, I don't view BP as a "foreign" entity, they are a trans-national corporation. Regardless, you do make a good point, if the US had as stringent of standards as required in the North Sea likely none of this would have happened.
- kujhygtfghj 16y agoI don't know, although there were items like a blowout preventer that would be required in other areas. I also don't know what the contract was, was BP in day-day charge of the rig or was that the company the rig was leased from? The capping operation was apparently being done by Haliburton! I do know that the US has 4x the industrial accident rate of Uk/Germany/Scandanavia and it's not due to foreign companies.