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BP’s protective order

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

burning-oil-rig-explosion-fireTalk about a preservation obligation!!

1. The Defendants, Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc., Deepwater Horizon, BP Products North America, Inc., Halliburton Energy Services, Cameron International Corporation d/b/a Cameron Systems Corporation and MI SWACO, through their officers, agents, employees, and subcontractors, are ordered:
(a) To reasonably refrain and resist from any changing, alteration and/or destruction of any documents pertaining to the April 20, 2010 explosion or subsequent efforts expended in connection with such event, including all infonnation stored, held or maintained in electronic format or via the internet; and to take immediate action to prevent the automatic andlor systematic programmed deletion or discarding of such documents.
(b) To reasonably refrain and resist from any changing, alteration and/or destruction of any and all tools, instrumentalitics, and/or devices which may have been used by workers, in any capacity, as well as any work authorizations or other documents indicating status of work at the time of the event in question as well as any and all physical evidence of any kind in any way connected with the accident and/or accident scene in question.

Read all the protective order [PDF].

How will they preserve the oil and the fire?!