Transocean Deepwater Horizon Survivor Interview-CBS 60 Minutes

Getting this guy (electrical something or other)to comment on drilling operations is like getting a NASA janitor to comment on a moonshot!

Lets review what we know to be facts

* The BOPS were tested every 2 weeks by MMS and passed inspections .This was AFTER this guy claims chuncks of rubber came from the Annular.

* Annulars are made to pull pipe in...its a procedure called "stripping".

* The rubber found by the derrickhand was from drilling out the rubber plug (Remember he says this was a month before the explosion) used during each casing job-this well had several strings of casing-so several rubber plugs had to be drilled out and this is the incident that the driler told him" not to worry about" because it was (and is) normal. The rubber plugs are drilled slowly with little bit weight so as not to "Punch Through" it and have a donut of rubber on the bottom of your drilling assembly. While drilling the rubber derrickhands are trained to watch the shakers for rubber in the returns to report progress of drilling out the rubber plugs.

* Drilling fast is the way of life in the oilfield and has no bearing on this accident-Every driller is responsible to make as much good, clean straight hole as possible. it has no bearing on "being behind"

* Tony Haywards comments on Transocean being the party responsible for safety- This comment is true and he should not be cursed by press/politicians for saying this as he is not denying blame at all on BPs part.
Here is how that works- BP leases the rig and almost all that man it from Transocean for $500,000 a day. out of over 160 people on board only a few are BP employees. Transocean trains and conducts their own safety meetings with employees- transocean pays workers comp and insurance on these employees, THEY ARE TRANSOCEAN EMPLOYEES! transocean is responsible for their safety.

When BP said this in interviews-they were not saying they had no responsibility for the spill/disaster. BP knows that BP IS 100% responsible for what happens downhole -THAT IS BP's RESPONSIBILITY and what caused the disaster!

That is the reason why BP is responsible for the mess and fixing it.

I hope this sheds some light on what is accurate and what is biased or not understood by this reporter on CBS 60 Minutes.