Originally Posted by
MK27
I think if you look around the world, where-ever you see an oil company at work they always obey the absolute minimum required of them by law, and they always organize to pressure governments to keep these requirements down. They do not have any standard of operation at all except in so far as it is demanded of them. BP would walk away from this and do absolutely nothing, as Shell does with many incidents in Nigeria, if they thought they could get away with it. There is no "blame game" going on. There is a party to blame here, everyone knows who it is, and they deserve whatever they get. Thankfully, even their shareholders are now suing them for exposing them to a risk thru negligence and poor safety. I hope BP gets completely worked over, they should not be in business.