WHAT BP WANTED

BP wanted to cut corners to save money and that's why the damn thing blew. (h/t Atrios)

BP Engineer Called Doomed Rig a 'Nightmare Well'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 14, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) -- BP took measures to cut costs in the weeks before the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as it dealt with one problem after another, prompting a BP engineer to describe the doomed rig as a ''nightmare well,'' according to internal documents released Monday.

The comment by BP engineer Brian Morel came in an e-mail April 14, six days before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 people and has sent tens of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf in the nation's worst environmental disaster.

BP apparently rejected advice of a subcontractor, Halliburton Inc., in preparing for a cementing job to close up the well. BP rejected Halliburton's recommendation to use 21 ''centralizers'' to make sure the casing ran down the center of the well bore. Instead, BP used six centralizers.

In an e-mail on April 16, a BP official involved in the decision explained: ''It will take 10 hours to install them. I do not like this.'' Later that day, another official recognized the risks of proceeding with insufficient centralizers but commented: ''who cares, it's done, end of story, will probably be fine.''