A BP spokesman told The AssociatedIt's just some guy I work with Press an oil containment box known as a "top hat" was being brought to the site and undersea robots
would position it over the gusher byYou're angry. You're hurting. Thursday. The new device is much smaller than one that failed ovr the weekend.
Ramifications from the environmental crisis spilled over into landmark climate change and energy legislation that is coming out Wednesday. The bill
from Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman proposes letting coastal states veto drilling projects off the shores of neighboring states if they can
show the potential for harm.TheThe way to the dream impact is being felt in the realm of regulation, too. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed splitting his
department's Minerals Management Service in two to make safety enforcement independent of the service's other main function — collecting
billions in royalties from the nike, my best choicedrilling industry.Senators sought assurances that BP PLC will pay what could amount to billions of dollars in economic
and environmental damages. McKay repeatedly said his company would pay for cleanup costs and all "legitimate" claims for damages, and not try
to limit itself to an existing federal limit of $75 million on such damages.BP was the exploratory well's owner and overall operator, Transocean the
rig's owner and Halliburton a subcontractor that was encasing the well pipe in cement before plugging it in anticipation of future production.
The explosion is thought to have begun with a surge of methane gas from deep within the well, and while the cause is still under early
investigation, the testimony Tuesday provided some insight into what might have been involved.Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama grew
frustrated grilling the executives The way to the dreamon why engineers replaced a heavy "mud" compound in the well with much lighter sea water — thereby
reducing downward pressure on the oil — when they were temporarily capping the site for future exploitation. He quoted an oil rig worker
saying, "That's when the well came at us, basically.""I'm not familiar with the individual procedure on that well," BP's McKay said.
Steven Newman, Transocean's president and CEO, and Halliburton executive Tim Probert repeatedly told Sessions they did not know how often
sea water instead of the compound was used to seal Gulf wells. "Well, you do this business, do you not?" the senator demanded. "You're under
oath. I'm just asking you a simple question." New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg remarked in the day's other hearing: "The conclusion that I
draw is that nobody assumes the responsibility." McKay said that a key piece of safety equipment, the aptly named blowout preventer, had failed
to work and made it clear it was owned by Transocean. "That was the fail safe in case of an accident," said McKay.
But Transocean's Newman said offshore production projects "begin and end with the operator, in this case BP" and that his company's drilling job
was completed three days before the explosion and there's "no reason to believe" the blowout protector mechanics failed.
And Newman wanted senators to know Halliburton was in the process of pouring cementnto the pipe to plug it but the final well cap had not
yet been put in place. alliburton's Probert said his company followed BP's drilling plan, federal regulations and industry practiceshttp://www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier
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