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U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has reported that Owen McWhorter, a supervisor who was responsible for the blowout preventer owned by Transocean Ltd. some weeks prior to the BP PLC platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in a massive oilspill was allegedly working as a consultant for the government investigation into the accident.

The commission set up to investigate the causes of the BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reports that the disaster was indicative of problems with the culture in the offshore oil well drilling industry. The report is likely to have a far-reaching effect on the petroleum industry.

As the investigation into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion of a BP PLC offshore oil well reveals that Halliburton Co. tested the cement used in the well's construction, found it faulty, but used it anyway.

The Shaw Group Inc. and its subcontractors, hired by the state of Louisiana to construct a 40-mile-log sand berm to protect its coast from oil that was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico when a BP PLC offshore oil well drilling rig exploded, has come under fire by the state government for not moving the project along fast enough. Poor weather and shifting federal requirements have been offered by Shaw as the reason for the delay.

Most theories about the cause of the explosion of BP PLC's offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico center on the well-drilling and the foam that was used to cement the well, but Stanford University geophysicist Mark Zodiac suggest another cause might be fracking, cracks forming in an underwater formation that caused the foam to improperly mix due to contact with nitrogen.