Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
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And if so, what about the other companies that were involved in some way that may have an interest in the well or the rig -- are they liable at all?
When the heavy drilling mud that provides the pressure needed to keep things from coming up the well was removed, first as a test, then as part of a procedure for closing down the well and moving the rig, telltale signs that something was wrong were missed.
The 20th was the day of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig above the well that killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
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Washington (CNN) -- Oil giant BP and contractor Halliburton knew of potential flaws in the cement slurry used to reinforce the oil well below the Deepwater Horizon rig before it exploded in April, according to a letter Thursday from the lead investigator for a federal probe of the Gulf oil disaster.
This is what this data is supposed to monitor, but the well flow evidence would appear to have been ignored, because at this point the BP rig supervisors should have gone to a well kill operation and started to pump heavy mud back into the well bore to restore the primary control mechanism.
BP, rig owner Transocean and well cement contractor Halliburton have blamed each other for the disaster.
In August, protesters from environmental group Greenpeace tried to stall the drilling of the Alpha well by suspending themselves from the rig.
The drillers lost control and the well blew out, igniting the rig in a fireball that burned for days and killed two workers.
While BP was extracting the oil from underneath the Gulf of Mexico when the Macondo well exploded, the Deepwater Horizon rig itself was owned by Transocean.
In September, a government report on the spill found that BP, rig owner Transocean and well cement contractor Halliburton shared responsibility for the explosion, but BP was "ultimately responsible" for operations at the site.
Transocean lawyer Brad Brian said that last week's settlement was not an admission of gross negligence and that last-minute changes to the well design by BP had the rig's crew "at wits' end" before the disaster.
Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
At this moment, Davy Jones has been cased to the bottom of the well, sealed with cement and temporarily abandoned so the rig could be moved 2.5 miles to the southwest to drill the second Davy Jones delineation well.
Earlier Wednesday, well control expert Calvin Barnhill testified that he believes Deepwater Horizon rig workers "got ahead of themselves" as they tried to seal the Macondo well and prepared to move on to drilling a different well.
Transocean (RIG) executives may very well be indicted for a small oil spill far off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last month.
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The company has operations in 80 countries that are classified into 4 main geographic divisions and competes with Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) and Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI) as well as with Transocean (NYSE: RIG) in the offshore and deepwater sector.
The burn-off is part of the effort to prevent the spread of oil from an underwater well that was broken open when the drill rig Deepwater Horizon blew up and sank last week.
"Transocean's rig crew accepted the direction of BP well site leaders to proceed in the face of clear danger signs at a tragic cost to many of them, " said assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer.
The well erupted after an April 20 explosion aboard the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
The civil lawsuit was brought against the UK oil firm - as well as other companies involved in the accident, including rig-owner Transocean and cement-provider Halliburton - by the US Justice of Department and the US states affected by the oil slick.
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Shell says it's working at far less depth and lower pressures than the BP well that erupted off Louisiana, destroying the Deepwater Horizon drill rig and killing 11 men aboard.
Even more alarming, the rig survivors said, was the amount of resistance the well was giving them.
Well the Tories and Liberal Democrats are pretty ruthless in trying to rig British politics in their favour.
An explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well head, which took 84 days to seal.
Well, for starters Transocean owned, leased and operated the deepwater rig from which all the problems arose back on April 20.
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