Far from being "Beyond Petroleum," BP was among oil giants who resisted proposed new safety rules from the U.S. Minerals Management Service last year.
Manwhile, the culprit on the current well? Problems with cementing the well casing, and not the first time this has been an issue.
Rules to improve that, being developed jointly by MMS and the American Petroleum Institute, had been in the pipeline, so to speak, for four years.
Meanwhile, with the spill now up to 5,000 barrels a day of leak, unless the previously untried-at-scale method of burning off the oil works, the spill will make landfall, likely here in Tejas, by this weekend.
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