"We got a little bit seduced that it would all come together seamlessly and the same design rules would be applied everywhere in the world and corners wouldn't be cut and financial realities wouldn't hit certain folks, " Mr. McNerney told an audience at an event in September.
The report doesn't attempt to assign blame to individual workers or companies, and it doesn't directly address one of the key questions raised by Congressional and other investigators: whether BP cutcorners to save money.