BP engineer called doomed rig a 'nightmare well'
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Postings from Louisiana's Bayou Country.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
BP engineer called doomed rig a 'nightmare well'
The Deepwater Horizon oil platform leans before sinking April 21 into the Gulf of Mexico.
The comment by BP engineer Brian Morel came in an e-mail April 14, six days before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 people and has sent tens of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf in the nation's worst environmental disaster.
The e-mail was among dozens of internal documents released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating the explosion and its aftermath.
In a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., noted at least five questionable decisions BP made in the days leading up to the explosion.
READ MORE AT THE DAILY COMENTMATTHEW DALY
Associated Press Writer
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