Don T., I think you have the sequence of events mixed up.

I have an acquaintance who has worked on such oil rigs and is following this with both great interest and much expertise. I'll check with him and be back in a day or two.

In the meantime, Attorney General Eric Holder is naming ,all three, BP, Transocean (owner of the Deepwater Horizon), and Haliburton, as liable in the Gulf oil spill.

That works for me.

Don Firth