In its first investigative report regarding what caused the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and subsequent massive oil spill, BP BP said a combination of human, operational and engineering errors led the rig’s oil well to destabilize and the emergency blow-out preventer to fail to seal the well.
However the company deflected much of the criticism to its oil-well partners: Halliburton HAL and Transocean RIG.
Because the report was handled by BP’s own internal investigators, the objectivity of the report will be called into question by BP's critics. The oil company is under multiple investigations to determine if it was criminally negligent, and the report's conclusions could be used to show there are too many extraneous factors happening to charge BP with a crime.
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