Radio Interview with Someone whose was an eye witness to BP explosion

05/04/10 - by Mike Kemp contribution and added knowledge from working in the business.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1790422&spid=32364

OK, here goes. I am told that the casing at the sea floor was concreted in-- with 20 feet of concrete-- 24 hours before the event on the rig-- by Halliburton. And that to do that, the blowout preventers (I understand that they use two, like inboard and outboard isolation--I'm not dead certain of that). were closed. That this rig was being prepared to be moved off and a production rig brought in. At that point, they would 'core' the concrete plug, hook up, and the blowout preventers opened and production established.

This means that there was no pathway for nat gas to fill the rig to cause an explosion.

I am told that the blowout preventers are fail-closed hydraulically actuated, with monster actuators. I understand that they essentially function like excess flow check valves. Too much flow starts going through, the valves automatically close without manual intervention.

If you recall, it was reported that the 'acoustically operated blowout preventers' would not respond to a close signal after the explosions and fire on the rig. I am told that this means they have been disabled, one way or another. By explosion, by something. THEY ARE FAIL CLOSED.

I am told that the sea was calm, and that a service boat in near vicinity to the rig heard what they interpreted to be an undersea explosion, and the boat was rocked a short time afterward by a 'surge' on the surface. And then the stuff began to hit the fan. I am led to believe that there are layer upon layer upon layer of redundant fail-safes on this rig, and that the rig is state of the art.

I am told that Boots and Coots, as well as Red Adair's companies (there have been some ownership shuffling in the last years--Halliburton now owns Boots and Coots, as I understand) were point blank refused after the event occurred and these companies offered their services.

And I am told that the word 'bomb' is never, ever used in any respect in the oil bidness. The guy on the radio interview used the word at least twice.

I have no reason to doubt what I am told. But I do not have the expertise to fully judge in depth either the mark levin story or the story I have been told. I understand the equipment being described, but my expertise in HOW the equipment is employed is lacking. I am listening to the 2nd part of the radio call again. He definitely used the word 'bomb' at least twice.

This is what I know, or have been told, as of now. and therefore I am again left in the dark as to what actually and truly happened. And I am led to believe that the drilling rigs in the Gulf (not yet at this
point the production rigs) have been shut down.

Mike Kemp
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