Oil Spill Disasters

Gulf Spill Resulted from "Insufficient Consideration of Risk"

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In Brief...

In an interim report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released this morning, a committee of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council finds that " suggest an insufficient consideration of risk and a lack of operating discipline. " The committee also questioned "the adequacy of operating knowledge on the part of key personnel.

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