Mark Bly, BP’s head of safety and operations, released an internal report on September 7, 2010 blaming not only the company, but also its partners for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill. A spokesman at Transocean quickly lashed out, calling it a “self-serving report” that minimized what was critical: BP’s “fatally flawed” well design.[1] Behind the self-serving aspect was a larger conflict of interest—one premised on the structure of two functions: an “objective” investigation and efforts to minimize legal damages.
The full essay is at Institutional Conflicts of Interest, available at Amazon.
1. NBC News, "Transocean: BP Probe 'Self-Serving' and Misleading," September 8, 2010.
