NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge heard conflicting testimony Wednesday from two former BP executives about the effect of cost-cutting measures on the company’s drilling operations before the 2010 oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
On the third day of a trial designed to figure out how much BP and other companies are to blame for the spill, lawyers for Gulf Coast residents and businesses played excerpts of videotaped depositions of former BP chief executive Tony Hayward and Kevin Lacy, who served as BP’s senior vice president for drilling operations in the Gulf before resigning four months before the spill.
