Gulf oil spill: Federal government forced to subpoena Transocean safety records
The federal government reached its limit in patience and issued subpoenas for 12 years of safety records from Transocean after this year’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -db Courthouse News Service November 29, 2010 By Sabrina Canfield NEW ORLEANS (CN) – The United States says Transocean has blown off its demands for safety audits of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, whose explosion set off the worst oil spill in U.S.