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when Guide took time off after his father’s death. 189 Those responsibilities
included investigation of the March 8 kick incident.

On April 6, Keith Daigle, BP well operations advisor, notified Guide that
Bob Kaluza would replace Ronnie Sepulvado as one of the two BP well team
leaders on the Deepwater Horizon so that Sepulvado could attend well control
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training. Kaluza had four years of deepwater drilling experience but minimal
experience with the Deepwater Horizon rig.

Meanwhile, the problem of “just in time delivery of well plans,” which
O’Bryan expressed concerns about, continued. In a post‐blowout interview,
Gregg Walz stated that, at the time, he “was concerned about last minute
changes and he wanted to get work done earlier.” On April 12, Sepulvado
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emailed Brian Morel to ask for temporary abandonment procedures. Morel’s
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subsequent emails revealed that he still had not completed the temporary
abandonment procedures and was still not sure whether the Macondo drilling
team would set the lock‐down sleeve during temporary abandonment.
193

There was evidence that members of the Macondo team were concerned
about operations at Macondo. Morel emailed his wife on April 14 that he had to
go offshore to the Deepwater Horizon rig because “our normal WSL [well site
leader] is heading in and the new guy is good, but not in tune with the well so I
need to go out and make sure they follow every step as any deviations could
lead to us not getting a good cement job and having to do a lot of remedial
operations.”
194

In the days immediately prior to the blowout, the contentious emails
between Guide and Sims continued. On April 15, Sims emailed Guide to see if
he could meet with him the following morning, and Guide responded by asking
Sims if he was going to be fired. In the same email, Sims asked whether he
needed to “delegate” Guide’s work since Guide had been out of the office and
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Sims did not know where he was. At this time, the Macondo team was
working on critical cementing procedures and needed input from Guide.

189 BP‐HZN‐MBI00214540.
190 BP‐HZN‐MBI00241455.
191 BP‐HZN‐BLY00061325.
192 BP‐HZN‐MBI00199122.
193 BP‐HZN‐MBI00126145; BP‐HZN‐MBI00126333.
194 BP‐HZN‐MBI00329028.
195 BP‐HZN‐MBI002543828; BP‐HZN‐MBI00254858.

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