I'm sorry, Richard, but it was a BP executive who told the drilling crew that the drilling was taking too long and costing too much, and ordered them to speed up the drilling. When the crew objected, saying that it would not be safe to do so, he insisted, and threatened to fire them and bring in another crew unless they followed his orders. So they obeyed his orders and what they feared might happen did!

Reported by a man who was there, and damn near died when the rig blew up.

That's what happened.

Don Firth