The two companies disagreed about who was in charge of interpreting a negative pressure test that could have warned workers of the problems.
Obviously Thad Allen discussed the pressure test for the well and getting a sense and judging the intensity of the wellbore through pressurization, right?
Thirteen of the 14 criminal charges pertain to the accident itself and are based on the negligent misinterpretation of the negative pressure test conducted on board the Deepwater Horizon.
Most of the technical issues covered in the report, such as the failure of a crucial cement seal and the misinterpretation of a key pressure test, have been raised by other investigations.
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Eight of the more than 9, 700 tubes in one of the unit 3 generators failed a pressure test, while six tubes in unit 2's reactor needed to be plugged, the NRC has found.
Bartlit emphasized in his letter Thursday that cementing failures are a known hazard in the oil industry, with specific tests such as a "negative pressure test" and "cement evaluation logs" designed to identify cementing problems.
If pressure bleeds off there is clearly a problem with the pressure integrity of the shoe, However, industry practice dictates that a positive test, that is no pressure drop, is not diagnostic, simply because the reservoir pressure is sufficient to retain the pressure being applied.
The RVP is based on a test that measures vapor pressure of the gasoline blend at 100 degrees F.
Concerns over consistency and dealing with the pressure of Test level competition, the sort of 'mental vermin' that fuel my game.
It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
The unions said the tests did not give a true picture of pupils' attainment, encouraged teaching to the test and put pupils under pressure.
The Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility, where the regime may be about to carry out a new nuclear test in defiance of international pressure, doesn't appear to be featured on the map at the moment.
Even Daniel Vettori, who had such a stranglehold over England for much of the Old Trafford Test, could not build pressure against Pietersen and Ambrose, not helped by the slow surface and failing to record a maiden.
There's likely to be pressure for a single test, but still a private one.
Districts everywhere are under pressure to raise academic test scores, and to do so with ever-shrinking budgets.
Feinberg knows that she and the school face tremendous pressure to improve the test scores of the city's most challenging students.
When the cap test began, the hope was that pressure would rise to 8, 000 psi in a couple days.
Professor Kopp has taken a leading roll in developing the pressure boxes explained how the test has been set up.
And, like New Delhi, Islamabad showed no readiness to bend to U.S. pressure and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
At community colleges that small percentage of students that Johnston referred to as being good candidates for the undeclared major, can test the waters with less expense and pressure.
"We've learned a lot about how we build our systems, how we need to test our systems, the kind of pressure that's on them in those peak filing days, " Miller said.
His century in Bulawayo was his first in a Test for almost two years and eased the pressure on him from supporters of Mohammed Kaif, who is next in line for a place in the batting line-up.
When Saints managed to put the visitors under pressure their defence was up to the test, Dorn pulling off a last-ditch tackle on Gaskell and Calderwood tackling Francis Meli into touch at the corner.
The pressure group has chosen Angola as a test case in a wider campaign to force multinationals to ensure that their profits do not go to finance wars, and its first report on Angola was on the diamond trade.
The investigation did discover that BP's rig supervisors and crew members from Transocean had not carried out a crucial safety test properly, missing an important early warning that the pressure was too high and the well was about to rupture.
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Ian Bell, under pressure from Shah for a place in the opening Test in Jamaica, was caught for 36 after he drove hard at Willett's second delivery of the day.
"If he (Kim) is really determined to defy pressure from the international community and let a third nuclear test go ahead, I would say he is too immature, compared with his late father, when it comes to handling regional relations, " North Korea expert Lu Chao told the newspaper.
The health-care debate, including some of the pressure points of the week ahead, will be a fascinating test case.
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More crucially for Wales, this was the moment when Ryan Jones and his team-mates knew might await them - the test of their mettle going into the final quarter behind and under huge pressure from their opponents.
Chinese media and experts voice concern over rising regional tensions, amid pressure on Beijing to rein in North Korea after its third nuclear test.
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