The U.S. National Commission to investigate the causes of the explosion of the platform called Deepwater Horizon, Tuesday, January 11, the creation of an independent agency responsible for the safety of offshore operations. She also called for enhancing financial penalties in case of accident. The commission, composed of seven experts was set up by the White House after the worst oil spill in the history of the United States, caused by the explosion of the BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico.She has published its recommendations in a report of over three hundred pages. "The disaster requires nothing less than a complete overhaul of the petroleum industry practices and government oversight," says the report, which had already denounced errors "systemic", under customary practices in the entire sector .
"The causes are systemic and without significant reforms in both industry practices and government policies, it can happen again," says the report. The explosion, April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform, operated by BP, and the well Macondo, who was by 1500 meters deep, had killed eleven people and spilled over in three months four million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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