Oil Spill Disaster 2010 (part263) - Tony Hayward visits oil spill — Transcript

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1. 0:00all right welcome back you heard what
2. 0:01that Allen had to say he's the uh
3. 0:04commandant of the uh Coast Guard uh
4. 0:06let's go now if we possibly could to uh
5. 0:09Tony Hayward this is that interview we
6. 0:11did just uh moments ago uh he did it on
7. 0:14the beach uh this is exclusive tape of
8. 0:17Tony Hayward on the beach let's take it
9. 0:22now
10. 0:24beached and what I will be doing with my
11. 0:27team immediately after this is
12. 0:29understanding
13. 0:30what more we can do to reinforce the
14. 0:33defenses along the shoreline we have a
15. 0:35lot of resources on location we need to
16. 0:38find a way of deploying them more
17. 0:40effectively to keep them keep the oil
18. 0:43off the shore we continue to fight this
19. 0:46battle on free fronts to eliminate the
20. 0:48leak in the sub sea to contain the oil
21. 0:52on the surface and to defend the
22. 0:54shoreline and as I've said it's clear
23. 0:57that the defense of the shoreline
24. 1:00this point has not been successful and I
25. 1:01feel devastated by that absolutely
26. 1:04gutted what I can tell you is that we
27. 1:07are here for the Long Haul we are going
28. 1:09to clean every drop of oil off the shore
29. 1:13we will remediate any environmental
30. 1:16damage and we will put the Gulf Coast
31. 1:19right and back to normality as fast as
32. 1:22we can there are a lot of people
33. 1:24concerned about the longer term impact
34. 1:27of all of this and today we have
35. 1:29announced
36. 1:30a $500 million research program to begin
37. 1:34immediately studying the impact of this
38. 1:37so we can assess what needs to be done
39. 1:40to remediate any environmental impact
40. 1:43both along the shore and in the further
41. 1:46offshore marine environment that work
42. 1:48will be conducted by the best scientific
43. 1:51Minds that we can bring together it will
44. 1:54be completely independent of BP and it
45. 1:57will help us establish
46. 2:00the basis on which we remediate any
47. 2:03environmental impact and we will be here
48. 2:06for as long as it takes to remediate any
49. 2:10environmental impacts and I know that
50. 2:12there is an enormous amount of anger and
51. 2:16frustration on the parts of the local
52. 2:19communities I share that this is
53. 2:22something I never wanted to see and we
54. 2:25are going to do everything in our power
55. 2:28to deal with it as fast as we can and
56. 2:31return the societies and communities of
57. 2:34the Gulf Coast to normal as quickly as
58. 2:36we can and we are have put in place a
59. 2:41comprehensive claims process to ensure
60. 2:44that while people's livelihoods is
61. 2:46impacted they are kept whole
62. 2:49economically the government ising about
63. 2:51a possible criminal investigation the
64. 2:53government has ined of a possible
65. 2:55criminal investigation have you heard
66. 2:56anything about that and what is your
67. 2:58response to that I think there will be
68. 2:59all sorts of Investigations following
69. 3:01this quite rightly and we will deal with
70. 3:04them as they come what about
71. 3:06Federal effort handing that over to the
72. 3:10government as long as continues to put
73. 3:12the bill we have worked collaboratively
74. 3:15in cooperatively with the all of the
75. 3:17federal agencies from the beginning of
76. 3:19this the relationship on the ground is
77. 3:22fantastic and we continue
78. 3:24to and we continue to do everything we
79. 3:27can and clearly I'm as devastated as you
80. 3:29You Are by what I've seen here today and
81. 3:32we are going to do everything in our
82. 3:33power to prevent any more oil coming
83. 3:36ashore and we will clean every last drop
84. 3:38up and we will remediate all of the
85. 3:41environmental
86. 3:45damage do you think that there were
87. 3:47problems that were apparent all there's
88. 3:50been a lot of debate and speculation on
89. 3:53the accident I think it's right that we
90. 3:56allow the investigations of which there
91. 3:58are many to proceed
92. 4:00and allow the investigations to draw
93. 4:03whatever is the right conclusion and we
94. 4:05are cooperating with all of the
95. 4:07investigations I'm going to take two
96. 4:09more questions than I need to
97. 4:12go
98. 4:15people on the B and nothing firm certain
99. 4:19for August what would you tell people
100. 4:21about what to expect should they be
101. 4:23confident about
102. 4:24the we are working through in a very
103. 4:28rigorous scientific and Engineering way
104. 4:31a series of options to eliminate the
105. 4:33leak they are being assessed From
106. 4:36perspective of likelihood of success and
107. 4:39the risk around them so a risk reward
108. 4:41approach and they are being
109. 4:44prioritized so we've thus far executed
110. 4:47two one of them failed the other one has
111. 4:49been partially successful in that we are
112. 4:51now producing oil and gas to surface the
113. 4:54third option is the top kill and we will
114. 4:57be in all likelihood in a position to
115. 5:00execute that in the middle of the week
116. 5:03it has never been done in 5,000 ft of
117. 5:05water if it was on land we would have a
118. 5:08very high confidence of success but
119. 5:11because it's in 5,000 ft of water we
120. 5:13need to be realistic about the issues
121. 5:16around operating in a mile of water we
122. 5:19rate the probability of success of
123. 5:21somewhere between 60 and 70% but what
124. 5:24are you saying beyond that there is a
125. 5:28third and fourth and fifth option around
126. 5:32both containment and elimination and as
127. 5:35I said we are working through the
128. 5:37options in a systematic
129. 5:39rigorous engineering approach to ensure
130. 5:43that we execute the best option with the
131. 5:46greatest success greatest likelihood of
132. 5:49success and lowest risk in a sequenc
133. 5:52approach I'll
134. 5:54take do you of the area who
135. 5:58re D has said that he wants to continue
136. 6:01using it that currently using despite a
137. 6:04federal deadline of last month where
138. 6:06does that stand is the applying it now
139. 6:09and secondly Mr Salazar has called this
140. 6:11an existential issue for raising
141. 6:14existential questions
142. 6:17about we have uh used dispersements from
143. 6:20the beginning that are on the EPA
144. 6:23approved list everything that we do with
145. 6:25dispersants is with the explicit
146. 6:27approval of the EPA both in term of
147. 6:30dispersant type and the quantity volume
148. 6:34applied over any 24-hour period and that
149. 6:38continues and as to the question of an
150. 6:42existential I think this is clearly a
151. 6:45major reputational issue for BP there's
152. 6:48no doubt about it and we are doing
153. 6:50everything in our power to respond in
154. 6:53the right way we are not limiting the
155. 6:56resources that we're applying to this
156. 6:58we're trying to do the right thing we're
157. 7:00trying to do it the right way and we are
158. 7:02trying to communicate openly and
159. 7:05transparently about everything that
160. 7:07we've done you have eight Mr you have
161. 7:11excuse me you have eight other rigs in
162. 7:13the Gul of Mexico what are you doing on
163. 7:16those rigs to prevent this from
164. 7:18happening
165. 7:19again uh the only rigs that we have
166. 7:21drilling today are the two rigs that are
167. 7:23drilling the relief Wells they have
168. 7:25undergone a very very thorough and
169. 7:28extensive testing in of the blowout
170. 7:31preventer over and above that which has
171. 7:34been promulgated by the MNS MMS in the
172. 7:37aftermath of this incident I'm going to
173. 7:40go now thank you ladies and gentlemen
174. 7:42for your
175. 7:43time you have to go through deamination
176. 7:45like we
177. 7:46did boy there you go and and he is asked
178. 7:50a lot of the questions that a lot of
179. 7:51Americans want answered specifically
180. 7:52questions about what's going on with
181. 7:54some of the other oil uh rigs off the
182. 7:57coast and are they safe and are we that
183. 7:59this won't possibly happen again you
184. 8:02heard him say that they are in fact by
185. 8:03Wednesday morning going to go ahead and
186. 8:05try this next uh operation uh it's it's
187. 8:09not going to be the ultimate uh
188. 8:11operation in fact that one might come a
189. 8:13little bit later when they try and do
190. 8:15the uh drill the uh relief well but in
191. 8:17the meantime this is what we got this is
192. 8:19the news that's being made we're also
193. 8:21got U Michelle custo who's going to be
194. 8:23joining us in just a little bit he's
195. 8:24going to make news as well by telling us
196. 8:26that he believes that there is still a
197. 8:28whole lot of oil just underneath the
198. 8:30surface and let me tell you this as we
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