you really have to work on design of the blowout preventer where it does not fail when you have to activate it. when it does not fail because of the thing that requires it in the first place. that s the thing that makes me crazy about this. have you seen post deepwater horizon safety improvements that should make people feel reassured enough to feel comfortable at the permits coming out at a rate of one every four days? usually after one of these events, like the exxon valdez, they focus a couple of years, make sure the safety reports are filled out, everybody is trained and everybody is working according to the procedures. but success breeds complacency. over a period of time, you have this slip into the same complacency where history could very well repeat itself if we don t improve the devices themselves. bob cavnar, author of disaster on the horizon. 30 year veteran of the oil industry. i should note for viewers we tried to contact bhp bulletin
when it does not fail because of the thing that requires it in the first place. that s the thing that makes me crazy about this. have you seen post deepwater horizon safety improvements that should make people feel reassured enough to feel comfortable at the permits coming out at a rate of one every four days? usually after one of these events, like the exxon valdez, they focus a couple of years, make sure the safety reports are filled out, everybody is trained and everybody is working according to the procedures. but success breeds complacency. over a period of time, you have this slip into the same complacency where history could very well repeat itself if we don t improve the devices themselves. bob cavnar, author of disaster on the horizon. 30 year veteran of the oil industry. i should note for viewers we tried to contact bhp bulletin and transocean, nobody was available to answer questions. we will keep trying tirelessly. thanks very much.
have to activate it. when it does not fail because of the thing that requires it in the first place. that s the thing that makes me crazy about this. have you seen post deepwater horizon safety improvements that should make people feel reassured enough to feel comfortable at the permits coming out at a rate of one every four days? usually after one of these events, like the exxon valdez, they focus a couple of years, make sure the safety reports are filled out, everybody is trained and everybody is working according to the procedures. but success breeds complacency. over a period of time, you have this slip into the same complacency where history could very well repeat itself if we don t improve the devices themselves. bob cavnar, author of disaster on the horizon. 30 year veteran of the oil industry. i should note for viewers we tried to contact bhp bulletin and transocean, nobody was available to answer questions. we will keep trying tirelessly. thanks very much. you bet.
history. all that happy talk about how much safer everything is now, they are using the same equipment used in the bp disaster. happy talk or not. joining us now, former oil industry executive bob cavnar, that 30 year veteran that we consulted with today. currently ceo of a company in the natural gas industry. before that, he was president and ceo of an oil and gas drilling exploration firm. he is author of the book disaster on the horizon. the story behind the deepwater horizon blowout. thanks for being here. happy to be here. what do we know about the transocean drill ship blowout preventer compared with deepwater horizon? this drill ship was built about the same time as deepwater horizon was, so the blowout preventer had that same one around 2000. it is essentially identical to deepwater horizon preventer.
oil spill in united states history. all that happy talk about how much safer everything is now, they are using the same equipment used in the bp disaster. happy talk or not. joining us now, former oil industry executive bob cavnar, that 30-year veteran that we consulted with today. currently coe of a company in the natural gas industry. before that, he was president and ceo of an oil and gas drilling exploration firm. he is author of the book disaster on the horizon. the story behind the deepwater horizon blowout. thanks for being here. happy to be here. what do we know about the transocean drill ship blowout preventer compared with deepwater horizon? this drill ship was built about the same time as deepwater horizon was, so the blowout preventer had that same one around 2000. it is essentially identical to deepwater horizon preventer.