Sentence examples for cement testing from inspiring English sources
BP had accused Halliburton of destroying evidence of its cement testing.
BP has accused Halliburton of destroying evidence of its cement testing.
The BP investigation team makes 25 recommendations covering everything from blowout preventers, well control, emergency systems, cement testing, rig audit and personnel testing.
The cement that was supposed to stop the oil and gas shooting up the well pipe didn't work The report says: "Improved engineering rigor, cement testing and communication of risk by Halliburton could have identified the low probability of the cement to achieve zonal isolation.
Quantifying the energy exchanges across the laboratory and field processes provides a basis for understanding relative impacts of these variables on cement structure, and can ultimately lead to the development of practices to improve cement testing and performance.
Where the new report stands out is in showing how options that would have reduced the risk, like thorough cement testing, were systematically forgone in favour of cheaper alternatives without due consideration.BP bears the brunt of the report's stinging criticism, but not all of it.
The plaintiffs have accused Halliburton of conducting undocumented cement tests and then hiding the results.
"Halliburton believes that significant differences between its internal cement tests and the commission's test results may be due to differences in the cement materials tested," the company said in a statement issued in response to the letter.
Lawyers representing businesses and others that suffered from the spill had long accused the company of conducting undocumented cement tests and hiding the results.
Judge Barbier said he would not rule yet on BP's claim that Halliburton committed fraud by concealing material information about the cement tests it conducted.
Halliburton, BP said, had a "critical role" in the spill, with "misconduct" that included not sharing the results of failed cement tests, making a cement slurry that failed and missing "critical signals" of seepage into the wellbore.
