Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response

The fatal flaw in the plan was that it was presumed that BOPs never fail.
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You're just pulling chit out of your @$$.

No such presumption about BOPs existed, except after the explosion when 0bamab0ts like you spread it as disinformation.  

BOPs have a 50 percent failure rate, which wasn't any secret.  It's known throughout the industry and by the government.  

A 2002 study commissioned by the U.S. Minerals Management Service, the agency that oversees the offshore oil industry, found that 50 percent of the shear rams tested failed to cut through pipe and halt the flow of oil.

http://www.boemre.gov/tarprojects/455.htm

It's not like blow-outs haven't happened before, with the same b.u.m. BOPs, with the same filed and failed response plans.  'Top Hat' = 'El Sombrero' (Ixtoc blowout, 1979). They tried a 'junk shot', too, at Ixtoc.  

The only known solution is the relief well, and even that has required multiple tries, which is why oil companies balked at having to be required to drill a relief well at the time they're drilling the original well.  
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