Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
There is/was a persistent rumour around Aberdeen that back in the 80's an engineer pressed the large red Emergency Shutdown button on the Forties platform offshore to "check that it worked" - it did............. took over 3 days and the loss of 300,000 barrels of production - say $60 million - to get it back on stream.................
And there is fact if some engineer had done the same thing to test whether the blowout protector on the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico was actually capable of working, BP would have saved itself over $40 billion in fines, cleanup costs and compensation.