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==Safety practices== ===Food and Water Watch lawsuit=== On 17 May 2010, consumer group [[Food & Water Watch]], with former BP contractor Kenneth Abbott, filed a complaint in the [[United States district court]], seeking to stop production on the platform ''[[Atlantis PQ]]'' until safety documents are produced.<ref name="FWWSuit">{{cite news|last=Driver |first=Anna |title=U.S. Regulators Sued Over BP's Atlantis Platform |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1710274120100517?type=marketsNews |accessdate=18 May 2010 |date=2010-05-17 |agency=Reuters |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130104175332/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1710274120100517?type=marketsNews |archivedate=2013-01-04 |location=Houston, Texas |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="60min1">{{cite interview | subject=Michael Williams | interviewer=Scott Pelley | title=Deepwater Horizon's Blowout, Part 1 | url=http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=0QTplOIQZdImAkzJqPt1LNLcjf_YDWcj&nrd=1 | type=Interview: video | work=60 Minutes | publisher=[[CBS]] | date=16 May 2010 | accessdate=18 May 2010}}</ref> The suit was dropped by the plaintiff and re-file naming [[BP]] as a defendant, as required once BP became involved.<ref name="BizWeek">{{cite news | last=Calkins | first=Laurel | title=BP Atlantis Whistleblower Drops Suit Against U.S. | url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/bp-atlantis-whistleblower-drops-suit-against-u-s-over-safety.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202133656/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/bp-atlantis-whistleblower-drops-suit-against-u-s-over-safety.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 2, 2010 | work=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]] | accessdate=8 July 2010 | date=2010-06-18}}</ref> According to Food & Water Watch, BP failed to supplement its document production with new information regarding Atlantis's suspension the second quarter of 2012, which caused much of the company's $3.7 billion loss in profits that quarter.<ref name="Food & Water">{{cite press release | title= Food & Water Watch and Former BP Contractor Turned Whistleblower Notify Court of BP’s Failure to Disclose Information Critical to Atlantis Lawsuit | url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/bp-atlantis-whistleblower-drops-suit-against-u-s-over-safety.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202133656/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/bp-atlantis-whistleblower-drops-suit-against-u-s-over-safety.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 2, 2010 | publisher = [[Food & Water Watch]] | accessdate=16 August 2012 | date= 8 August 2012}}</ref> ===US government scrutiny=== The [[Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion|''Deepwater Horizon'' drilling rig explosion]] has given new impetus to a number of Congressional Representatives to pressure the [[Minerals Management Service]] (MMS) to investigate safety practices on BP's ''[[Atlantis PQ]]'' offshore platform in the Atlantis Oil Field. A whistleblower report to the MMS in March 2009 stated, "over 85 percent of the Atlantis Project's Piping and Instrument drawings lacked final engineer-approval," as legally required.<ref name=commondreams/><ref>{{cite web | author=Raúl M. Grijalva | url=http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=519 | title=Grijalva Calls For Investigation of Oil Drilling Safety Records as Whistleblower Suggests BP Is Operating Illegally| date=2010-05-02 | publisher=U.S. House of Representatives | accessdate=11 June 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100721002607/http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=519| archivedate= 21 July 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> The report further stated, "the project be immediately shut down until those documents could be accounted for and independently verified."<ref name=commondreams>{{cite web | author=Kate Fried | url=https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/04/22-10| title=Deepwater Horizon Accident Foreshadows a Potential Disaster Waiting to Happen in the Gulf | work=Commondreams | publisher=Food & Water Watch | date=22 April 2010 | accessdate=11 June 2010}}</ref> BP and other oil industry groups wrote letters objecting to a proposed MMS rule last year that would have required stricter safety measures.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471204575209331720726738 | title=Documents Show BP Opposed New, Stricter Safety Rules | author=Guy Chazan | author2=Ben Casselman | work=[[Wall Street Journal]]| date=2010-04-28 | accessdate=11 June 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100503011814/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471204575209331720726738.html| archivedate= 3 May 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> The MMS changed rules in April 2008 to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, allowing BP to operate in the Macondo Prospect without filing a blowout plan.<ref>{{cite news|author=Michael Kunzelmann|author2=Richard T. Piencia |title=Oil spill: BP had no 'blowout' plan |url=http://www.pnj.com/article/20100506/NEWS01/100506008 |work=[[Pensacola News Journal]]|date=6 May 2010 |agency=The Associated Press |accessdate=11 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608120121/http://www.pnj.com/article/20100506/NEWS01/100506008 |archivedate=June 8, 2010 }}</ref>
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