The owner of the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, said Wednesday that a report by the coast guard that the flaws of the society for a poor safety culture and other gaps preceding the disaster is full of errors.
Transocean said in a response of 112 pages submitted to the Government of the United States the draft report on 22 April should be corrected. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and enforcement should publish a final report with the coast guard from the end of next month.
Switzerland-based Transocean insists that the explosion has not resulted in poor maintenance, the Eruption was well maintained and that the general alarm on the test bench did not fail to operate automatically. He also said that the engines on the test bench did not fail to close in the detection of gas.
"When a report of this importance is expected to reach conclusions and makes conclusions thus inconsistent with the evidence, questions must be raised about the process of establishing the facts and if an agenda, rather than evidence, serves as the foundation of the report," Transocean stated in its response.
A spokesman for the federal investigative team joint refused to comment on.
Multiple Government and independent investigations have accused a cascade of failures by several companies, including Transocean.
The coast guard said in his report that the decisions taken by the workers on rig "may have affected the explosions or their impact," such as do not follow the procedures of notification of the other members of the crew on the emergency situation after the explosion. He also electrical appliances which may ignite the explosion was poorly maintained, while gas detectors and automatic closure systems were circumvented so that they have not alerted the crew. And, according to the report, the rig workers ne are properly trained on how and when to disconnect from the platform of the well to prevent an explosion.
April 2010 on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion killed 11 workers and led the tide to the worse off the coast in the history of the United States. BP PLC was leasing the Transocean test bench and owned a controlling interest in the well a mile beneath the sea. According to Government estimates, some 206 million litres of oil were released by the well before he plays three months after the explosion.
Hundreds of miles of shoreline of the Gulf were stained with oil, fishers, and business owners lost their means of subsistence and new regulations were imposed as the offshore drilling industry was placed under a microscope. BP has spent tens of billions of dollars, clean up the damage and compensate the victims, and seeks to recover some of its losses from its partners on the platform.
