BP safety chief denies internal report on Gulf spill intended to 'avoid casting blame' on global oil giant | NOLA.com

BP safety chief denies internal report on Gulf spill intended to 'avoid casting blame' on global oil giant | NOLA.com: by Richard Thompson

 "In his third day of testimony, BP's safety chief denied Monday that the internal investigation he led into the Macondo oil well blowout intended to "blame the folks on the rig and avoid casting blame on the BP onshore people."

During cross-examination Monday (March 4), Transocean attorney Brad Brian asked Bly about an April 17, 2010, email, in which BP's Houston-based well team leader John Guide warned that there were so many last-minute changes to the Macondo operation that "rig leaders have finally come to their wits end. The quote is flying by the seat of our pants.""The operation is not going to succeed if we continue in this manner," Guide wrote in the email to his boss, David Sims, BP's manager for Gulf of Mexico oil drilling operations.During cross-examination, Bly testified that he was "probably" aware of the email while the investigation was under way. He downplayed its significance when asked whether the email was crucial in assessing the actions of BP management, specifically that "that the operations supervisor onshore had written three days before the blowout that the operation is not going to succeed.""We didn't think one sentence out" out of the email was "particularly significant," Bly replied. 

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