LONDON (AP) - A newspaper says it has obtained an internal audit
conducted by BP PLC on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that details
severe safety flaws months before the Gulf of Mexico spill.
The Sunday Times said in its report that the audit details how
the drilling rig, owned by contractor Transocean, did not fully
comply with BP's standards.
The report says that seven months ahead of the April explosion,
auditors found 390 maintenance tasks that were more than a month
overdue on the rig. These included maintenance work on parts of the
blowout preventer, the safety device atop the well that failed to
trigger on the day of the accident.
BP and Transocean, which could both face heavy penalties, have
disagreed on who should take responsibility for the spill.

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