BP Management is liable for the damages seen at the BP Oil Spill Live Feed and the damaging spill at the Gulf of Mexico. Correspondence which includes e-mails, documents and other memo reveals that BP had always tried to cut cost even at the risk of more damage.

Photo from Yahoo! News: Oil swirls in the Gulf of Mexico currents May 6. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

It was revealed that the tragedy from the well which BP engineer itself described as a “nightmare well” maybe due to the cost cutting which BP just made weeks before the catastrophic blowout. Since then the solution made by BP led to more problems. The reason is not mere failure but they have refused to listen to experts because they opt for a cheaper solution.

Watching the BP Oil Spill Live Feed alone makes you really want to punch the BP management and now that it was revealed that they are themselves the cause of prolonging this problem makes you want to see them suffer more.

The Congress investigation headed by Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich wrote a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward asking the reason behind BP decisions that led to a more unstable oil well platform and seen as trading safety for profit.

“Time after time, it appears that BP made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense,” the lawmakers wrote in the 14-page letter to Hayward. “If this is what happened, BP’s carelessness and complacency have inflicted a heavy toll on the Gulf, its inhabitants, and the workers on the rig.”

Just before the sealing cap procedure was made BP opted to use a liner to clean oil and reroute the leak but later on decided to abandon it. The reason is not because it did not work for it did very well, but because it does cost more.

The solution of BP is to use the more risky but cheap casing option which saves them “$7 to $10 million more and taken longer,”

On another decision BP rejected an advice of Haliburton Inc., in preparing for the cementing job to close up the well and use 21 “centralizers” to make sure the procedure work. However, BP opted for just six centralizers and thus the procedure failed miserably.

In spite of the well’s difficulties, “BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure,” Waxman and Stupak said.

These plus many other related decisions points out that the oil spill we are watching at the Gulf of Mexico via the BP Oil Spill Live Feed is not an accident but cause by negligence and could have been avoided.