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(Reblogged from diadoumenos)
Let me repeat: you are drilling the world’s deepest oil well, which requires some very specialized technology, yet from a safety and risk standpoint you acted as if this was just any ol’ offshore well. And you claim that you didn’t put “blowout preventers” on these wells because an accident like what we’re seeing “seemed inconceivable”. I repeat: You are doing something that has never been done before and yet in your brilliance an accident was “inconceivable.