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WASHINGTON — The petroleum industry and federal regulators focused more on exploration and production than safety in the years leading up to 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, helping to set the stage for the worst offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history, according to a new independent report by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council.
Conducted at the behest of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the report said the “multiple flawed decisions that led to a blowout” on the Deepwater Horizon rig resulted “from a deficient overall systems approach to safety” among the corporations that ran the drilling of the Macondo well, including BP, Transocean and Halliburton.
