Well I'm afraid to say speaking to guys here in Aberdeen who have worked in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico they say that safety practices on American rigs are really lax. They do things that would get you kicked off a North Sea rig in minutes.
A friend of mine is a drilling engineer for BP, he was in Houston at the time on a course and he was telling me it was made out to be a lot worse by the press.
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