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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Coast Guard slammed production chisel operator Transocean's "poor country culture" in a inform weekday on the massive discharge and blast that unleashed the biggest shipping lubricator move in history.

Poor maintenance, lacking training and the bypassing of alarms and semiautomatic shutdown systems prevented the crew from shutting down the laugher substantially after it blew and led to a disorganised withdrawal of the blazing Deepwater Horizon rig.

"The enquiry revealed that Deepwater Horizon and its owner, Transocean, had serious country direction grouping failures and a slummy country culture," the Coast Guard over in a 288-page report.

"The consort leaders' unfortunate to send to deference with the International Safety Management Code created a country society throughout its fleet that could be described as: 'running it until it breaks,' 'only if it's convenient,' and 'going finished the motions.'"

The inform -- released on the one-year anniversary of the rig's sinking -- is just the prototypal volume in the Coast Guard's enquiry and does not contact upon the failures that led to the laugher or the power of the move response.

It will, however, wage fodder for the legal battle over business domain for the hardship that killed 11 workers and unleashed 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of lubricator into the Gulf of Mexico.

Well someone BP filed a $40 1000000000 causa Wednesday against Transocean, which subsequently filed a counter-suit.

BP has also sued lubricator services giant Halliburton, which was responsible for the well's imperfect filler job, and parts manufacturer Cameron, supplier of the imperfect laugher preventer.

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