csmonitor.com— BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward attended a yachting race in England yesterday. It was just the latest BP public relations gaffe in the Gulf oil spill. Here are 10 of the worst.
Jun 20, 2010View in Crawl 4
I disagree. If the CEO is seen to have such a lax attitude towards the oil spill, the next level of management and many levels down would take it easy as well. Just like you said he is only the face of the company, even though he doesn't do much at work..he has to be at work or on site, to show his seriousness about the cleanup.
"and yet even after all the precautions they took it still happened. It's easy to say retroactively "YOU DIDN'T TAKE ENOUGH PRECAUTIONS". What matters is if they were intentionally careless in their drilling."The problem is they didn't take any precautions, they drilled full bore and threw caution to the wind.They were extremely negligent, to a point that it is almost intentional. Do a little research, 60 minutes did a show, there have been a number of insiders that have spoke up. They knew:-The blow out preventor BOV (physical valve) was damaged and not likely functioning.-The BOV 2ndary controls were down with a hydrolic leak-The BOV primary controls were not 100% responsive because of a weak battery-The safety equipment on the rig wasn't functioning properly leading to the turbine breathing in the natural gas and over revving causing the big explosion on board. (vents didn't close as they should have shutting the motor down)-They were trying to cut costs and drill fast. They drilled so hard they started to fracture the well and broke the drilling tools in the well.-Out sourced the plug to Haliburton and lied about the depth of the well to cut costs and so the plug wasn't large enough.-pumped the heavy mud out and replaced with sea water to cut production time down the road.I could go on and on but they took every single possible risk, they operated knowing every single possible safety net was broken. This is criminal and some one needs to be held accountable at BP, because they were running the operations. This is obviously standard practice for them and that needs to change.Lastly, in the past people burried me for using BOV saying it is a BOP. Blow out valve, blow out preventor potato potato, eat me.
"BP says it drills 100 oil wells all over the world, so it's impossible for the CEO to know what's going on everywhere."Some what correct. Although I manage about 100 WIFI radios and Every morning I Make sure every one is up and running and has good signal strength and reliable connection. I also manage about 60 workstations, I won't get into the messy details there. I have approximately 10 subnets and eeh, I don't even know I would need to check my logs but near equal if not more routers. Then there are the servers, well my point is I have a lot of s**t on my table but I keep a close eye on it all and have policies and procudes in place to keep a clean smooth operating department. At the end of the day, BP top end makes calls and management calls that affect all the way down the ladder to the drill hole and these calls were about saving a buck and not safety even thought they say otherwise.They were extremely negligent, to a point that it is almost intentional. Do a little research, 60 minutes did a show, there have been a number of insiders that have spoke up. They knew:-The blow out preventor BOV (physical valve) was damaged and not likely functioning.-The BOV 2ndary controls were down with a hydrolic leak-The BOV primary controls were not 100% responsive because of a weak battery-The safety equipment on the rig wasn't functioning properly leading to the turbine breathing in the natural gas and over revving causing the big explosion on board. (vents didn't close as they should have shutting the motor down)-They were trying to cut costs and drill fast. They drilled so hard they started to fracture the well and broke the drilling tools in the well.-Out sourced the plug to Haliburton and lied about the depth of the well to cut costs and so the plug wasn't large enough.-pumped the heavy mud out and replaced with sea water to cut production time down the road.I could go on and on but they took every single possible risk, they operated knowing every single possible safety net was broken. This is criminal and some one needs to be held accountable at BP, because they were running the operations. This is obviously standard practice for them and that needs to change.Lastly, in the past people burried me for using BOV saying it is a BOP. Blow out valve, blow out preventor potato potato, eat me.
@Five35,Why? Are people expecting him to don a wetsuit, swim down, and plug the hole himself? Should he pick up a trash bag and some paper towels? That's useless.And even beyond useless, it's bad management. Micromanaging people who know more than you just makes things come out worse. Now, I'll admit it's a bit of political karma to see Obama get beat up after the way the press treated Bush during Katrina, but that doesn't make it reasonable.
spiffzaJun 21, 2010
I disagree. If the CEO is seen to have such a lax attitude towards the oil spill, the next level of management and many levels down would take it easy as well. Just like you said he is only the face of the company, even though he doesn't do much at work..he has to be at work or on site, to show his seriousness about the cleanup.
Closed AccountJun 21, 2010
"and yet even after all the precautions they took it still happened. It's easy to say retroactively "YOU DIDN'T TAKE ENOUGH PRECAUTIONS". What matters is if they were intentionally careless in their drilling."The problem is they didn't take any precautions, they drilled full bore and threw caution to the wind.They were extremely negligent, to a point that it is almost intentional. Do a little research, 60 minutes did a show, there have been a number of insiders that have spoke up. They knew:-The blow out preventor BOV (physical valve) was damaged and not likely functioning.-The BOV 2ndary controls were down with a hydrolic leak-The BOV primary controls were not 100% responsive because of a weak battery-The safety equipment on the rig wasn't functioning properly leading to the turbine breathing in the natural gas and over revving causing the big explosion on board. (vents didn't close as they should have shutting the motor down)-They were trying to cut costs and drill fast. They drilled so hard they started to fracture the well and broke the drilling tools in the well.-Out sourced the plug to Haliburton and lied about the depth of the well to cut costs and so the plug wasn't large enough.-pumped the heavy mud out and replaced with sea water to cut production time down the road.I could go on and on but they took every single possible risk, they operated knowing every single possible safety net was broken. This is criminal and some one needs to be held accountable at BP, because they were running the operations. This is obviously standard practice for them and that needs to change.Lastly, in the past people burried me for using BOV saying it is a BOP. Blow out valve, blow out preventor potato potato, eat me.
Closed AccountJun 21, 2010
"BP says it drills 100 oil wells all over the world, so it's impossible for the CEO to know what's going on everywhere."Some what correct. Although I manage about 100 WIFI radios and Every morning I Make sure every one is up and running and has good signal strength and reliable connection. I also manage about 60 workstations, I won't get into the messy details there. I have approximately 10 subnets and eeh, I don't even know I would need to check my logs but near equal if not more routers. Then there are the servers, well my point is I have a lot of s**t on my table but I keep a close eye on it all and have policies and procudes in place to keep a clean smooth operating department. At the end of the day, BP top end makes calls and management calls that affect all the way down the ladder to the drill hole and these calls were about saving a buck and not safety even thought they say otherwise.They were extremely negligent, to a point that it is almost intentional. Do a little research, 60 minutes did a show, there have been a number of insiders that have spoke up. They knew:-The blow out preventor BOV (physical valve) was damaged and not likely functioning.-The BOV 2ndary controls were down with a hydrolic leak-The BOV primary controls were not 100% responsive because of a weak battery-The safety equipment on the rig wasn't functioning properly leading to the turbine breathing in the natural gas and over revving causing the big explosion on board. (vents didn't close as they should have shutting the motor down)-They were trying to cut costs and drill fast. They drilled so hard they started to fracture the well and broke the drilling tools in the well.-Out sourced the plug to Haliburton and lied about the depth of the well to cut costs and so the plug wasn't large enough.-pumped the heavy mud out and replaced with sea water to cut production time down the road.I could go on and on but they took every single possible risk, they operated knowing every single possible safety net was broken. This is criminal and some one needs to be held accountable at BP, because they were running the operations. This is obviously standard practice for them and that needs to change.Lastly, in the past people burried me for using BOV saying it is a BOP. Blow out valve, blow out preventor potato potato, eat me.
tsothaJun 21, 2010
@Five35,Why? Are people expecting him to don a wetsuit, swim down, and plug the hole himself? Should he pick up a trash bag and some paper towels? That's useless.And even beyond useless, it's bad management. Micromanaging people who know more than you just makes things come out worse. Now, I'll admit it's a bit of political karma to see Obama get beat up after the way the press treated Bush during Katrina, but that doesn't make it reasonable.
trent1492Jun 21, 2010
Well, that makes it all better now.
pwalk812Jun 22, 2010
So staying along the lines of "Top 10"...The Top 10 Ways Tony Hayward Can Improve His Image by David Letterman<a class="user" href="http://www.frequency.com/video/david-letterman/124390" rel="nofollow">http://www.frequency.com/video/david-letterman/124 ...</a>If you have any better one's post them as a reply! I want to see them