The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

the speculation in the last couple days has been that it was BP engineers who said let's replace the drilling mud with seawater before we finish the plug.

The reality is there are going to be so many red herrings. You always do that (laughing nervously), that's always the procedure, right? [I do not understand what this means—comments?]

he's simply saying, "that's the accusation; we'll wait for the trial to say more". the supposition is that replacement of mud by seawater provided insufficient confining pressure to prevent hydrocarbons from unexpectedly entering the well and subsequently the riser.

the red adair quote was priceless.