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• A Look at Deepwater Horizon: Were the Risks For Those On Board Reasonable? Many commentators around the world talk about the cause of the explosion on Deepwater Horizon when they actually mean the cause of the blowout and subsequent pollution. Blowouts are thankfully rare events; some blowouts in the past have not led to explosions, making recovery efforts more likely to succeed. The fatalities and the total destruction of the installation may have been prevented if an explosio....Read more

  Contributor:  Bill Cambell Tags: Deepwater Horizon | risk analysis | Bill Cambell 07/23/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Regulatory Failures: From Ocean Ranger To Deepwater Horizon And What Wasn't Learned As an orderly queue of potential litigants begins to form outside BP HQ over the failures that caused Deepwater Horizon, it appears that from the early release of the findings of the Presidential Commission, negligence of multiple parties can be attributed to the multiple failures involved. This negligence has extended beyond the corporate sphere and into previous US Government admini....Read more

  Contributor:  Bill Campbell Tags: Deepwater Horizon | Presidential Commission | Regulation 02/21/2011  12:00:00 AM EST

• 21 Months On: The API Revisit Macondo And Voices The Lessons Learned Interview by Tim Haïdar, Oil & Gas IQ In this exclusive interview, Holly Hopkins, Senior Policy Advisor at the American Petroleum Institute (API) speaks with Oil & Gas iQ’s Editor In Chief, Tim Haïdar, about the lay of the regulatory landscape after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Oil & Gas IQ: Holly, thanks for joining us today.   H Hopkins: Thanks fo....Read more

  Contributor:  Holly Hopkins Tags: Tim Haïdar | Holly Hopkins | API 01/30/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

• Oil & Gas IQ Publishes “Never Say Never Again” – A Report Into the Factors Behind Disasters From Sea Gem To Macondo In a 14 page special report for leading industry network Oil & Gas IQ, Integrity and HSE expert, Derek Park, presents a comprehensive analysis into why large scale disasters keep recurring in the energy sector. "Rushed, last minute and bad decisions made in the middle of the night are all too familiar to most of us.” Derek Park, 2012 In this in-depth investigation, Derek Park expl....Read more

  Contributor:  Oil & Gas IQ News Tags: Macondo | Piper Alpha | Derek Park 02/03/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

• 	Multiparty Contracting Post-Macondo: Ensuring Clarity And Limiting Liability In the run up to Oil & Gas iQ’s Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil and Gas Asia event, taking place on 20 - 21 March, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Editor in Chief of OilandGasiQ.com, Tim Haïdar, speaks with Srinivas Pala , Senior Manager, Legal & Contracts at Larsen & Toubro , about
  Contributor:   Tim Haïdar Tags: Tim Haïdar | Srinivas Pala | Larsen & Toubro 01/13/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

• 	21 Months On: The API Revisit Macondo And Voices The Lessons Learned In this exclusive interview, Holly Hopkins , Senior Policy Advisor at the American Petroleum Institute (API) speaks with Oil & Gas IQ’s Editor In Chief, Tim Haïdar , about the lay of the regulatory landscape after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout. The explosion on board the Macondo
  Contributor:   Tim Haïdar Tags: offshore safety | safety | asset integrity 01/16/2012  12:00:00 AM EST

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