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**casinobonusa** · 04-05-2010, 04:20 PM

So then ponchi....Transocean (the company operating the rig and owner of the rig) ARE liable, just like BP?

But all of the responsibility and cost seems to be on BP's shoulders....shouldn't Transocean be taking a frontseat on this? After all, it was THEIR safety equipment that failed.....

We go by what is called a "Risk Matrix". The top level is CATASTROPHIC, which is this event: Several Fatalities, World Wide Media coverage, Huge financial implications, Permanent Environmental Damage (or at least, extremely costly remediation) and Severe damage to the company's reputation. TransOcean is small potatoes, therefore the Media have focused on BP (Change BP for Transocean in all the headlines you have read, and see how many fewer people care). The LAWSUITS for the dead will affect BP precisely because they were Transocean client, but the lawsuits will, by law, have to mention both (you could not, for example, bring a lawsuit upon BP by itself here). It was Transocean direct responsibility, but also BP's liability.
Completely speculating here, but it will boil down to: Human error, Human error due to improper system flowchart, Human error due to improper training (wrong kid at the wrong shift), Improper Maintenance, Maintenance Schedule Wrongdoing (i.e. it wasn't done) or, most unlikely, system failure, which brings you back to System Backup. In all, Systemic Faults. And Systemic Faults bear responsibilities.
I mean, my Skype banner reads (for the last week) "Oil rigs are blowing up and I can't find a job?! WTF!!!!"

04-05-2010, 04:20 PM	#11
casinobonusa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 596 Senior Member	So then ponchi....Transocean (the company operating the rig and owner of the rig) ARE liable, just like BP? But all of the responsibility and cost seems to be on BP's shoulders....shouldn't Transocean be taking a frontseat on this? After all, it was THEIR safety equipment that failed..... We go by what is called a "Risk Matrix". The top level is CATASTROPHIC, which is this event: Several Fatalities, World Wide Media coverage, Huge financial implications, Permanent Environmental Damage (or at least, extremely costly remediation) and Severe damage to the company's reputation. TransOcean is small potatoes, therefore the Media have focused on BP (Change BP for Transocean in all the headlines you have read, and see how many fewer people care). The LAWSUITS for the dead will affect BP precisely because they were Transocean client, but the lawsuits will, by law, have to mention both (you could not, for example, bring a lawsuit upon BP by itself here). It was Transocean direct responsibility, but also BP's liability. Completely speculating here, but it will boil down to: Human error, Human error due to improper system flowchart, Human error due to improper training (wrong kid at the wrong shift), Improper Maintenance, Maintenance Schedule Wrongdoing (i.e. it wasn't done) or, most unlikely, system failure, which brings you back to System Backup. In all, Systemic Faults. And Systemic Faults bear responsibilities. I mean, my Skype banner reads (for the last week) "Oil rigs are blowing up and I can't find a job?! WTF!!!!"
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