I ran across this tonite...

[PJPhreak]

I was trying to find out how much goo was coming out of the BP Oil Disaster so I went over to a web forum that is populated by Oil Co Engineers,Roughnecks,Drill Ops ect. and in the middle of a VERY long thread came across this...

With appropriate caveats:

This is the "Oilfield Trash (Oilfield/Drilling Rig Workers) Scuttlebutt,but this is the Story circulating in New Orleans:




" BP contracted Schlumberger (SLB) to run the Cement Bond Log (CBL) test that was the final test on the plug that was skipped. The people testifying have been very coy about mentioning this, and you'll see why.

SLB is an extremely highly regarded (and incredibly expensive) service company. They place a high standard on safety and train their workers to shut down unsafe operations.

SLB gets out to the Deepwater Horizon to run the CBL, and they find the well still
kicking heavily, which it should not be that late in the operation. SLB orders the"company man" (BP's man on the scene that runs the operation) to dump kill fluid down the well and shut-in the well. The company man refuses. SLB in the very next sentence asks for a helo to take all SLB personel back to shore. The company man says there are no more helo's scheduled for the rest of the week (translation: you're here to do a job, now do it). SLB gets on the horn to shore, calls SLB's corporate HQ, and gets a helo flown out there at SLB's expense and takes all SLB personel to shore.

6 hours later, the platform explodes.

Pick your jaw up off the floor now. No CBL was run after the pressure tests because the
contractor high-tailed it out of there. If this story is true, the company man (who
survived) should go to jail for 11 counts of negligent homicide."

It does seem that news of a Schlumberger evacuation of their personnel would have leaked before now, but on the other hand it seems bizarre that someone would put together and circulate a false story like this.

"In any case, as you said, if it is more or less true the stuff is really going to hit the fan.

I emailed a reporter I know who is covering the oil spill story and I asked him he knows anything that would confirm or refute the Schlumberger evacuation story.

Update: The reporter I contacted said he is definitely going to investigate (this was the first time he had heard rumors of a pre-explosion Schlumberger evacuation).

Given the PR lies, lack of effort, and lack of transparency by BP (all known) I chose not to hide this story.

And one cannot defame BP. Their reputation is now worthless.



Allrite you DU news hounds and those with connections to the MSM...Is there some way to verify this? If this is true....


Edit to add:If you want to read the thread that this came from,here it is.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6464

Warning this thread has almost 500 posts,some of them are HIGHLY TECHNICAL, and it took me four hours to read the whole thread.

Very informative from those who do this shit for a living