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BP chose less expensive, higher-risk routes before oil well blowout, scientists say
The National Academy of Engineering released an interim report Wednesday on what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, repeating well-worn findings that BP failed to assess risks and chose less expensive actions that led to explosions that killed 11 workers and sent millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.
The independent scientists' report, requested by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to provide an outside perspective amid several government inquiries, offers little new information and leaves open the question of exactly which errors might have precipitated the explosions.
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But it is decidedly more critical of BP than a recent report from President Barack Obama's National Oil Spill Commission, which accepted the company's internal investigation report as "90 percent" accurate and shifted some of the blame to BP's contractors, such as cementing specialist Halliburton.