""To the point, BP has a new guide boss for their exploration; we hope that they have learned their lesson.""

Me too, and the lesson I hope they've learned is to ditch the US companies and make and fit their own blowout preventers and move the rigs using their own people. That way they'll only foot the bill for their own mistakes.

Looks as though we were right and the US firms are skating out from under on a teflon sleigh.

Don T.