Deposition Testimony of: Robert Bodek - Broadcast Interactive Media

00378:01 more pertinent to a driller, I will speak
02 with a member of our drilling contingent on
03 that. If it's subsurface related, I might
04 go to speak with -- with Chuck Bondurant.
05 It -- it depends on the nature of the
06 request. I'll -- which way I'll -- which
07 way I direct their question.
08 Q. So when you would get a request
09 for information from them, you would go to
10 the appropriate person to get it --
11 A. Information or --
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00378:14 A. -- or input, whether it be
15 subsurface or drilling. Like I said, I'm a
16 liaison between both, so I just take
17 whatever -- if it was Mr. Chandler, I go to
18 subsurface. If it was Mr. Quitzau, I would
19 go to the drilling.
20 Q. So sometimes they would give you
21 input, and then you would make sure that
22 that was --
23 A. That was communicated.
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00379:01 Q. -- communicated?
02 A. Yes, ma'am.
03 Q. And did -- did that sometimes
04 alter BP's decision as to how they were
05 going to proceed?
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00380:05 A. I don't know specifically. The
06 input was communicated. I don't know how
07 BP engineers implemented the input into
08 their practices.
09 Q. Okay. Go to Tab 44. Bates
10 Number BP-HZN-2179MDL00044347.
11 This is an e-mail dated
12 Monday, April 12th, from Michael Beirne to
13 you, among other people.
14 (Exhibit Number 1220 marked.)
15 A. Yes, ma'am.
16 Q. And it says, MOEX has requested
17 an explanation as to why we did not seek
18 approval to call objective depth this
19 weekend due to the fact none of the three
20 criteria were achieved. I need to provide
21 them a brief explanation that due to safety
22 and wellbore stability issues we had to
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