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Mr. Bartlit encountered strong criticism after releasing a report accusing Halliburton, a partner of drilling, incorrect use of cement in the well Macondo disaster.

The commission in its preliminary report on the tragedy in agreement with on 90pc of the conclusions of the BP but accused the giant oil to take unnecessary risks in its attempts to put an end to the flow of oil from the damaged well.

The Chief lawyer Fred Bartlit, who participated in the investigation of the Piper Alpha of the North Sea disaster in which 160 workers killed more than 20 years ago, said: "we have not seen one instance where a human being rendered a decision $ aware of security".

Last month he faced criticism after having released a report accusing Halliburton, a partner apparatus for drilling, the use of defective cement in the disaster of Macondo well.Report has ceased to relieving the blame, BP but he faced heavy criticism in private with counsel for the company to its conduct of the investigation it meetings said: "told it my guys we need to do something just because everyone hates me."

Mr. Bartlit has pointed out that the commission had not placed emphasis on legal responsibility or assigning blame. " "We seek not scapegoats", said Bob Graham, co-Chairman of the Committee.

BP laid the blame at the door of his partner, accusing the use of unstable Haliburton and TransOcean, owner of deep horizon of failing test anti-Eruption shot platform until it has been used on the platform.

TransOcean denied the accusations and well design the same BP has been a key factor in the accident .Haliburton defended how managed the work of cement and blame the explosion of other factors.

Leading Democrats have questioned five key decisions made by BP in the days just before the explosion. ""The common feature of these five decisions is that they pose a trade off between cost and good security", they dit.Ils allege that "time after it appears that BP had taken decisions that increase the risk of a coup to save time or expenses."

President Obama established the commission to produce proposals to avoid a repetition of the worst to engulf .Forage regulations United States oil slick is discussed by hearing Tuesday.

Commission preliminary results emerged as BP appointed two new non-executive to its Board of Directors .the directors ' them, Frank "Skip" Bowman, former head of the nuclear Navy American, was a member of the Baker who examined .the United States BP refinery safety Panel other Brendan Nelson, an administrator-leader of the Royal Bank of Scotland and former world of Accountants KPMG Chairman, will succeed Douglas Flint, President-designate of the HSBC, Chairman of BP Audit Committee.

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