this has been asked several times and i don t think we have gotten an answer yet, we all know about the e-mails from bp employees talking about the safety are pro-seed yours. brian morrell described the well as, quote, a nightmare well. how much were the drilling engineers consulted in the decision to use the single string casing? was this a bottom up decision in which the people actually connected to drilling the operation had some influence? or did it come from the top down? as i understand it, from the discussion with our investigation team and from the review of the documents, there was a discussion taking place amongst the drilli inin ining eg
judgments were taken. so would you call that a bottom up decision or top-down decision? i would say it was a decision by the right expert with the right knowledge to make the decision. in your testimony you note you re currently drilling two relief wells which will stem the flow of oil. in previous testimony from bp and transocean we heard there are numerous redound redundancies to ensure that tragedies like the one we ve seen unfold over the past 59 days don t occur. my question is this, do you view these relief wells as an on-off switch? when the wells are complete are they going to stop the flow of oil? if so, wouldn t didn t you predrill emergency relief wells prior? did you do cost benefit analysis