US oil spill inquiry chief slams BP’s ‘culture of complacency’
Commission identifies ‘incredible failures’ at BP, Halliburton and Transocean ahead of fatal Gulf of Mexico disaster The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 men and sent nearly 5m barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP BP and the other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster were operating under a “culture of complacency” and need top-to-bottom reform, the head of the presidential investigation into the oil spill said today. A day after releasing preliminary findings on the causes of the fatal explosion on the Deepwater Horizon – the first of multiple inquiries – William Reilly, co-chair of the commission, was scathing about the safety regime on…
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