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Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part VII: ‘Twas no time to “lawyer up”

Parts I, II, III, IV, V and VI of Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)?, have all focused on who first conceived of the device that was ultimately used to cap the blown out Macondo Well after the […]

Tom Young | Jul 8, 2016
Anchorage, AK | 4 comments
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part VI: “An earlier capping assembly”

Among the numerous inconsistencies found in the BP Deepwater Horizon trial testimony and documentation, we now point to an email dated June 18, 2010 from BP’s Trevor Smith. In the email, Smith prepares his team at BP to answer questions […]

Tom Young | Jun 20, 2016
Anchorage, AK | 1 comment
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part V: What’s in a name?

As discussed in Parts I, II, III and IV of Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP, there is no dispute that Chris McIntyre provided BP design drawings for a device very similar to the one that the company eventually used to […]

Tom Young | Jun 3, 2016
Anchorage, AK | Comments Off
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part IV: The Shaft

The smoking gun? As discussed in Part III of The Man Who Saved BP, the design for the device that Chris McIntyre provided to BP on May 14, 2010 to cap the Macondo Well described an unusually long riser – […]

Tom Young | Apr 6, 2016
Anchorage, AK | 2 comments
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part III: Contradictions

As discussed in The Man Who Saved BP Part II: The Invention, Chris McIntyre’s device, or one strikingly similar to it (a ventable valve landed on the flex joint flange above the LMRP), was in fact used to stop the flow of […]

Tom Young | Apr 5, 2016
Anchorage, AK | 1 comment
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part II: The Invention

On May 14, 2010, at 3:48 a.m. Alaska Standard Time, Chris McIntyre, the unlikely hero described in Part I of The Man Who Saved BP, emailed the company a PDF which contained a description and design drawings for his unique, new and […]

Tom Young | Mar 30, 2016
Anchorage, AK | Comments Off
Chris McIntyre, the man who saved BP (and the Gulf)? – Part I

Chris McIntyre is an unemployed, middle-aged truck driver in Alaska. He has no formal engineering training, is in relatively poor health, and is nearly down to his last dime. In short, he is an unlikely hero. So when he contacted me […]

Tom Young | Mar 10, 2016
Anchorage, AK | 6 comments
When You Hurt Your Own Kid In A Car Wreck

We are receiving more phone calls from parents who were driving – lost control – and ended up causing a wreck that hurt their own child. Normally, parents never like to think about their own mistakes hurting their children. It […]

Ward Merdes | Nov 22, 2015
Fairbanks, AK | Comments Off
Crossing Center-Line On The Parks

It’s winter again. The Alaska Dept. of Transportation budget is being slashed with recent budget problems. Alaskans driving on the Parks Highway are thus well-advised to exercise extreme caution. On-coming motorists are crossing the center-line and taking out folks head-on. […]

Ward Merdes | Nov 22, 2015
Fairbanks, AK | Comments Off
Car Wreck on Parks – Strackbein Injured – Here’s The Law

On 05/16/2015 at mile 252 of the Parks Highway in Healy, Zachary Butt of Wasilla fell asleep while driving northbound on the Parks Highway. He rolled his 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt off the southbound shoulder. Passenger Victoria Strackbein of Wasilla was […]

Ward Merdes | May 19, 2015
Fairbanks, AK | Comments Off