One of the UK gripes about the way the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been handled politically is that BP has been spotlighted as the only culprit. Yesterday 'the damning testimony yesterday from rig technicians working on the stricken Deepwater Horizon about safety alarms being routinely switched off on the Transocean rig could be a pivotal moment in the political blame game.' (Guardian). Be interesting to see whether Obama's attack-British Petroleum stance widens to encompass the US owned Transocean, Anadarko etc who were also involved. Transocean (30 Mar 1978; 5 Sept 1996) does look panicky, pressured and especially edgy later this year around Nov/Dec and is labouring mightily across the New Year into 2011. While all the talk is of CEO Tony Hayward exiting BP, the one who should really be bounced is the BP Chairman Carl Svanberg. Svanberg left Hayward who is an engineer to flounder in media interviews when it was really the Chairman's job.
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