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At a time when the Transocean Deepwater Horizon was still in the news an old comrade from my tong-swinging days told me: “They blew out their own casing, that’s why they couldn’t shut the BOPs”. It is difficult to understand how any moderately competent drilling-rig could allow casing from below the sea-bed/wellhead/mudline to be pushed upward with sufficient force and velocity to obstruct the BOPs, which sit immediately above the wellhead. I didn’t lose too much sleep over the story but it saddened me a little that it had become more difficult for me to get the inside-story and compare it with the official truth-lite-spiel.   British Petroleum were the operators of the Deepwater Horizon in 2010 when 11 people died and a large-scale pollution incident took place. I like to read books which is good because I have plenty of leisure time while the human-resources-scum greet about skills shortages. Greg Palast wrote  Vulture’s Picnic  which relates the Transo...