the but you did not site at the time? but there were bp folks who say the, correct, to your knowledge. there were bp people who saw this. so the document says there would be a potential need to verify with a bond loss and perform a remedial cement job. but bp chose the riskier approach. secondly, bp comoas the riskier centralizer option. experts told us in testimony to this committee the best practice would have been to use 21 centralizers, but bp only used 6. if you take a look at tab 8, it says on page 18, it says, you did this even though your cementer halliburton said this would create a quote, severe risk that the cement job would fail. it says based on different says
test. he called your decision and i m quoting, horribly negligent. so i want to ask you a question. do you think a ceo of this company it was a mistake not to conduct the cement bond loss test? that s what our investigation will determine. your answer would be yes, it was a mistake. i m not able to answer yes or no unless the investigation is complete. has your lawyer toiled not to. i wasn t involved. i m sorry. but you said you think that all the evidence shows it was a mistake, correct. that is not correct. that s not what i said. do you think it was all right. i think we need to complete the investigation. and determine whether running a cement bond log or not would have created a major difference in what happened here. let me ask you this. are you aware of the fact it would have cost about $128,000
and as i said a number of times, if there is any evidence that people put costs ahead of safety i ll take action. i understand. let me finish with the cement bond. now, you would bp failed to per form most effective test known to determine whether the cement was properly sealed. and that s the cement bond log cap. there was a contractor on board hired to perform this task but they were sent away 11 hours prior to the explosion. this test was described by halll burton as quote the only task that can determine the actual effectiveness of the bond between the cement sheath, the formation and at case itself. the committee has consult an independent expert to says that cement bond loss should always be used. another expert said it is unheard of not to perform this