Originally Posted by soddim
No doubt since 1982 there have been many occasions when BD delivered the goods on time and in a hurry but what I will not forget is that, after the Falklands war, they tried to withdraw all the clearances they had given. The excuse was that they had been hastily given and were therefore intrinsically unsafe. Either they can do it properly in a timely way or they should not have the job at all.
One hopes that employment under contract after the sell-off will present them with penalty clauses so that the cost of under-performance is too much to risk.
Those may have been 'the bad old days' when BD was seen as the 'Release Police'. It isn't the environment now - BD can neither 'give' nor 'take away'. What happens is that advice is given against a requirement for the customer (so, if as propulike discussed BD were chasing an unwanted clearance, it was against someone else's requirement) and it is for the customer to make use of that advice, be it for 'normal' RTS or an OEC. Whether that be implement, ignore, extend or limit is down to the customer to base against his capability need and safety management.
As BossEyed says, if you have a perception problem, get down there. I'm sure the tps and engineers on 'your' platform will be glad to chat.
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