Matthew Ganser is a former drilling engineer for Royal Dutch Shell and a National Science Foundation Fellow at Stanford University.

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Former BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix knows this well after his arrest earlier this year for allegedly deleting text message strings from his iPhone during his work to STOP the Macando Well from spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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Former BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix was arrested last April on charges of obstructing justice related to information that he had collected, and allegedly deleted, during his role of trying to stop oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP oil spill.

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