NYTimes Explores BP’s Continued Safety Failures

In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Blunders

“Time and again, BP has insisted that it has learned how to balance risk and safety, efficiency and profit. Yet the evidence suggests that fundamental change has been elusive.”

NYTimes reporter Sarah Lyall probes the recent safety errors of BP, from a teetering 15-story platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005, to an explosion at the Texas City refinery in 2005 which killed 15 workers, to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this year.