A petroleum engineer who's worked in the oil industry tells me BP is doing the minimum to clean up the oil and everything it can to protect its bottom line. According to the engineer, here's what BP should be doing right now to mitigate the damage.
This was the whole point of my Huffington Post column yesterday. Pass it around, if you please.
Corporate motivations are incompatible with adequately mitigating the oil spill. Again, all we need to do is look to Exxon which fought and appealed against paying out damages. Actually, all we need to do is look at the statements and performance of BP and Hayward.
And this I didn't know:
BP did start work on two relief wells as the government requested, but the second has been shut down to cannabalize parts from it for the primary well kill effort. The President must order BP to spend whatever money it takes to get another blow out preventer on site, to re-start work on the second pressure relief well. A recent blow-out off the coast of Australia required five pressure relief wells to successfully shut it down.
Oy, oy, oy. We're really screwed.