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A lingering question

03/14/2011
Disagreement lingers—and always will—over a troubling question raised by the Macondo tragedy of last Apr. 20: Does the fatal blowout condemn all safety habits of an entire industry? During the IHS-CERA Week conference in Houston last week, three interesting views emerged.The oil and gas industry has bristled from sweeping criticism it received in a report delivered in January to President Barack Obama by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling."The immediate causes of the Macondo well blowout can be traced to a series of identifiable mistakes made by BP, Halliburton, and Transocean that reveal such systematic failures in risk ma...
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