enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. they re just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. that s their, you know, requirement. bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators saying that your allegations are unfounded and that the platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. and my answer to that would be that when that attorney wrote that letter in january she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two face problem. you have a public face with the tony haywards saying everything is okay and pr groups and attorneys. three weeks ago tony wrote a letter to his people saying everything was fine there from the get-go, from the date we started and still fine and three weeks ago a judge did an ap interview which was done with swartz and he said, he said it s
do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. they re just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. that s their, you know, requirement. bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your allegations are unfounded and that the platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. and my answer to that would be that when that attorney westal wrote that letter in january she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two face problem. you have a public face with the tony haywards going out and saying everything is okay and pr groups and attorneys. three weeks ago tony wrote a letter to his people saying everything was fine there from the get-go, from the date w
in fact, bp said mms gave them a safety award. what is your feeling about mms performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? exactly, anderson. they were negligent in the enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. they re just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. that s their, you know, requirement. bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators saying that your allegations are unfounded and that the platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. and my answer to that would be that when that attorney wrote that letter in january she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two face problem. you have a public face with the tony haywards saying everything is okay and pr groups and attorneys.
safety award. what s your feeling about mms s performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping whatever bp want ed thm to? exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement in regulation of bp on the atlantis project. we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both, to get the mms to take notice. they re just not checking these drawings at all, okay? and they should be. that s their, you know, requirement. bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your allegations are unfounded and that the atlantis platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. and my answer to that would be that when that attorney, westall, wrote that letter in january, she deceived congress. i think at bp you have this two-faced problem. you have the public face with the tony hayward s going out, saying everything is okay, the about pr groups and attorneys.
me is that i ve seen i tried for a year and a half to get this problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engineer that this was a deadly recipe for problems and for catastrophic errors. and it just didn t happen. the management tone there was let s take the shortcut. let s do the engineering as fast as we can and forget about the normal things you should do. this rig is still operating this whole time. mms was out, inspecting the rigs and they didn t manage to find any of this. in fact, bp says mms gave them a safety award. what s your feeling about mms s performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping whatever bp wanted them to? exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement in regulation of bp on the atlantis project. we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both, to get the mms to take notice. they re just not checking these drawings at all, okay?