--- BP CEO Tony Hayward vowed in 2007 to “focus like a laser on a safe and reliable operations” ---
--- BP CEO Tony Hayward stated in 2010 Gulf oil spill "should never have happened" ---
Shell to Sea today criticised Minister of State for Natural Resources Conor Lenihan for stating that a Gulf of Mexico-type pollution incident could never happen in Ireland.[1]
The Sedco 711 drilling rig, which is owned by Transocean, is currently drilling for oil & gas off the coast of Mayo after being commissioned by Shell, Statoil and Vermillion. Transocean also owned the Deepwater Horizon rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the deaths of 11 workers and at least 80 million gallons of oil being released so far.