On
Tuesday, May 29, the attorneys for former BP drilling and completions
engineer Kurt Mix got to make another motion on his behalf before a
federal magistrate, and the Obama administration lost another round. The miscarriage of justice in this case is appalling. Let us review the timeline.
During April 2010, BP was engaged in drilling an exploratory well, Macondo 252, in about 5,000 feet of water offshore from Louisiana, using a drill rig, the Deepwater Horizon, provided by Transocean. Given that the infrastructure was not yet built to produce the well (the pipeline to carry the production to shore), BP decided to temporarily "plug and abandon" the well, with the intent to return later with another rig to "complete" the well by reopening it and installing the production equipment. That future "completion" operation would be designed by a "completion engineer" such as Mr. Mix. It was during the plug and abandon operation that the crew of the Deepwater Horizon lost control of the well, when the rising natural gas caught fire and exploded, killing eleven and wounding many more. Mr. Mix had nothing to do with causing the accident. He was just a poor sap called in to perform the ugly task of cleaning up the mess others had made.
FBI Special Agent Barbara O'Donnell started this mess when she went before a judge and filed an affidavit full of half-truths and misstatements of fact seeking to make an arrest. She got her way, and Mr. Mix was arrested with great fanfare and the classic "perp walk." Up to that point, Mr. Mix had been given zero chance to answer the charges. You may have seen the perp walk and O'Donnell's affidavit, but have you seen his attorneys' response? It makes one sick.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/dept_of_justice_case_against_former_bp_engineer_is_rapidly_crumbling.html#ixzz1wokqeJVx
During April 2010, BP was engaged in drilling an exploratory well, Macondo 252, in about 5,000 feet of water offshore from Louisiana, using a drill rig, the Deepwater Horizon, provided by Transocean. Given that the infrastructure was not yet built to produce the well (the pipeline to carry the production to shore), BP decided to temporarily "plug and abandon" the well, with the intent to return later with another rig to "complete" the well by reopening it and installing the production equipment. That future "completion" operation would be designed by a "completion engineer" such as Mr. Mix. It was during the plug and abandon operation that the crew of the Deepwater Horizon lost control of the well, when the rising natural gas caught fire and exploded, killing eleven and wounding many more. Mr. Mix had nothing to do with causing the accident. He was just a poor sap called in to perform the ugly task of cleaning up the mess others had made.
FBI Special Agent Barbara O'Donnell started this mess when she went before a judge and filed an affidavit full of half-truths and misstatements of fact seeking to make an arrest. She got her way, and Mr. Mix was arrested with great fanfare and the classic "perp walk." Up to that point, Mr. Mix had been given zero chance to answer the charges. You may have seen the perp walk and O'Donnell's affidavit, but have you seen his attorneys' response? It makes one sick.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/dept_of_justice_case_against_former_bp_engineer_is_rapidly_crumbling.html#ixzz1wokqeJVx
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