BP Accused of Safety Fault Knowledge ‘Weeks Before Blast’

A Deepwater Horizon rig worker said he identified a leak in the oil rig’s safety equipment weeks before the explosion in April, it has been revealed. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Tyrone Benton said the leak was not fixed at the time, but that instead the faulty blowout preventer was shut down. This meant that only one blowout preventer was in operation instead of two.