Gee, ya think? The big oil profits certainly aren't buying the smartest PR people on the block if they could not realize what a PR failure it would be to hand out bonuses based on their "best year on safety performance." These people are lucky there are so many pro-oil politicians in Washington, because someone ought to be in jail for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
In a filing with U.S. financial regulators on Friday, Transocean had said it achieved an "exemplary" safety record last year as measured by its total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate.
But Ihab Toma, the company's executive vice president of global business, said some wording in that statement "may have been insensitive" given the Deepwater Horizon accident caused by a blown-out BP [BP.L 472.00 2.75 (+0.59%)] well in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
"Nothing in the proxy was intended to minimize this tragedy or diminish the impact it has had on those who lost loved ones. Everyone at Transocean continues to mourn the loss of these friends and colleagues." Toma said in a statement on Monday.
