Engineer first to face criminal charges in 2010 BP spill

[knight1fox3]

Interesting.

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[cdcengineer]

Sound like they're throwing him under the bus.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

They are grasping at straws by trying to nab him on a technicality. He didn't have anything to do with the spill, but did (admittedly stupidly) delete evidence after having been told not to.

 

[engineergurl]

ummm, I thought everyone kinda just knows that even if you delete those things off your phone, there is SOME record out there... maybe he just needed the memory space on his phone?!? sorry, I am sure we don't have all the details but it bugs me when things come off as the person is guilty as charged in the media prior to a trial. And it does look like he's going to get thrown under the bus.

 

[envirotex]

He's not going to be the last...They'll find their Captain Hazelwood and parade him out.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

The truly ironic thing is that he deleted a lot of funny pics he downloaded at eb.com.

 

[Road Guy]

yeah big win for the Justice Department! guy didnt have anything to do with the spill, but stupidly deleted eveidence.. I hope you really dont get 20 years for this....

 

[Supe]

*Goes back and deletes EB.com posts regarding spill size estimates*

 

[cdcengineer]

He may have been trying to protect the company.

 

[goodal]

Engineering: Little glory, all the blame.

 

[EM_PS]

He's not going to be the last...They'll find their Captain Hazelwood and parade him out.

I'd be curious to find the mental giant that didn't think it necessary to run a cement bond log on the production casing cement. BP was shortcutting everything to try & get that well finished. They knew they had a helluva play there for it being a wildcat well.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Engineering: Little glory, all the blame.

A co-worker once told me, "The only time people notice engineers is when something went wrong." My goal ever since has been to never get noticed...