{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=1798", "Grijalva Demands Answers Following Tainted BP Atlantis Investigation", "2014-11-06", "2014", "2014-11", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Ra\u00fal Grijalva", "G000551", "grijalva.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "TUCSON, AZ \u2013 Today, Congressman Ra\u00fal Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to Secretary of Interior Sally Jewel, demanding answers and accountability after findings by a recent Inspector General (IG) report that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) suppressed contradictory findings by three engineers during an investigation into the BP Atlantis deepwater oil production facility.\r\n\r\n\tIn 2010 Congressman Grijalva led a request for an investigation into whether or not BP Atlantis, the largest oil and natural gas platform in the world, was operating improperly and risking catastrophe. \u00a0In a responding report sent to Congress in March 2011, BOEMRE assured Members and the public that while pertinent documents for Atlantis\u2019 operation were in disarray or lacking necessary signatures, there was \u201cno evidence\u201d that these document control problems created specific unsafe conditions.\r\n\r\n\tAccording to the recent IG findings, the Atlantis\u2019 problems were not limited to disorganized documentation, but rather that \u201cBP did not have a complete set of \u2018approved for construction\u2019 engineering documents for all subsea components of the Atlantis platform and related facilities when it began production in October 2007.\u201d Furthermore, BP did not \u201chave a complete set of \u2018as built\u2019 engineering documents for the Atlantis facilities that are currently in operation.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u201cCongress has a Constitutional duty to conduct oversight over the executive branch, and reports of a federal agency intentionally misleading lawmakers as they fulfill that duty are deeply troubling,\u201d said Rep. Grijalva. \u201cThe American people are already suffering enough from BP\u2019s willingness to cut corners on the Deepwater Horizon rig \u2013 the last thing we need is the federal government serving as accomplice while BP tries to maximize profits at the expense of the public\u2019s safety and wellbeing.\u201d\r\n\r\n\tThe full text of the letter Rep. Grijalva\u2019s sent today can be found here.\r\n\r\n\tThe March 2011 BOERMRE report was conducted at the request of Congressman Grijalva and 20 of his colleagues in a letter they sent in February 2010, which can be found here.\r\n\r\n\tThe full text of the Inspector General report can be found here.\r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=1798"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7211829070001841, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}