Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE)

While I have great respect for the technical and operational teams who are conducting the well intervention work, their allies and supporters are being alienated by the people who are managing the news.  From Day 1, the information on the well intervention operations has not been good enough, not even close.  We received no details on the repeated ROV attempts to actuate BOPE, very little information about the design and operation of the ill-fated seafloor collection chamber, and are now being totally stonewalled on the critical and long awaited top kill operation.

This is not a private drilling program or research project.  This became a public operation when the well blew out on April 20th.  Public resources are threatened, and the regional and national economic implications are enormous.  How and why are the top kill and other technical data confidential?

The Unified Command needs to stop managing the news and tell us what is happening.  For each injection period, we need the starting time, ending time, pressure fluctuations, injection rates, and volume and types of materials injected.  For observation periods, we need pressure readings versus time.  This information is surely being collected and summarized.  Share those summaries with the stakeholders in this massive effort – the American people.