It offered strong links in California, experience in Asia, and what Mr Ravech describes as impressive connections that have helped with business negotiations as well as with cementing the firm's second round of financing, recently completed with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an American investment bank.
Faulty blowout preventers, errors in the management of drilling fluids, a sub-par cementing job, questionable well design, haste it was a confluence of these factors that led to the blowout.
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He did not spare contractor Halliburton, either, saying it deserved some of the blame for providing BP with cementing of the Macondo well that was "poorly designed, not properly tested and was unstable".
Cementing fills and seals the annulus between the well casing and the drilled hole.
Celebrities like Bill Maher and various charitable organizations are already using the Givver platform, and there is an effort underway to get some 60 U.S. mayors, as well as state and federal officials to draw up official proclamations cementing Social Media Giving Day into the American psyche every July 15.
The Kims are well aware of the hatred their rule imbues among the populace, cementing their closely held belief that any deviation from the path of consistent and harsh leadership spells the end for them and their closely guarded privilege.
There had been more to celebrate in the World Cup itself, Barzalona cementing his reputation for exuberance by rising in his stirrups in celebration well before the finish line, echoing his win in last year's English Derby.
BP's well team, the report goes on, failed to appreciate the difficulties of the cementing, to assess the risks and to make sure it knew what was going on.
"That area could well be one of further development at a time when relationships between faith communities need reinforcement, cementing and solidifying, " he said.
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