I’ve read somewhere that a BP internal safety check performed a few months ago indicated “unusual” problems which according to again BP internal safety guidelines should have been resolved earlier, but somehow they made an exception this time. It didn’t seem like it would have been “illegal”, and it also did not note how often such exceptions are made, by what reasoning, what kind of problems they specifically encountered, what they did to keep the operation running, et cetera...
Though I seldom read “ordinary” news, even of this kind, as my past experience tells me that factual information is rather low, and most high-quality press likes more to show off in opinion and interpretation of an event than trying to provide an accurate historical report, at least within such a short time-frame. Could well be that this is different at this event.
Also, as with most engineering disciplines, really learning from such an event beyond the obvious “there is a non-zero chance for everything to blow up” usually requires more area-specific expertise than an ordinary outsider has.
I’ve read somewhere that a BP internal safety check performed a few months ago indicated “unusual” problems which according to again BP internal safety guidelines should have been resolved earlier, but somehow they made an exception this time. It didn’t seem like it would have been “illegal”, and it also did not note how often such exceptions are made, by what reasoning, what kind of problems they specifically encountered, what they did to keep the operation running, et cetera...
Though I seldom read “ordinary” news, even of this kind, as my past experience tells me that factual information is rather low, and most high-quality press likes more to show off in opinion and interpretation of an event than trying to provide an accurate historical report, at least within such a short time-frame. Could well be that this is different at this event.
Also, as with most engineering disciplines, really learning from such an event beyond the obvious “there is a non-zero chance for everything to blow up” usually requires more area-specific expertise than an ordinary outsider has.