BP Worker: Rig Was Leaking Before Explosions

Several workers from BP are claiming that there were missed warning signs that Deepwater Horizon rig:

In an interview published online on Monday, a technician who worked on the Deepwater Horizon told the BBC that the rig’s blowout preventer, which failed to seal BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on April 20, was leaking fluid weeks before the accident.

Tyrone Benton, who worked for a subcontractor on the rig, operating underwater robots, said in a video interview that he had spotted a leak in one of two control pods in the blowout preventer weeks before the explosion and notified BP and Transocean, the rig operator.

“We saw a leak on the pod,” Mr. Benton told Hilary Andersson of the BBC, and “seeing the leak we informed the company men.” He added: “They have a control room where they could turn off that pod and turn on the other one, so that they don’t have to stop production.”

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