BP said in an internal report released Wednesday that “a sequence of failures” involving “multiple companies and work teams” caused the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
In a 193-page report posted on its website, the energy giant blamed the accident on “mechanical failures, human judgments, engineering design, operational implementation and team interfaces.” BP accepted some of the responsibility for the disaster while blaming its partners–Halliburton and Transocean–for many mistakes made leading up to the April 20 explosion.
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