After a fire on a BP vessel capturing oil, BP resumed the containment process, which they announced is capturing more than 15,000 barrels a day.

On June 15th, government officials announced the well is leaking between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day.

The change was “based on updated information and scientific assessments,” the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center said.

Representative Stupak, Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation to examine the facts, and what went wrong.

Did BP shortcuts endanger lives?

Internal BP Documents show BP Shortcuts, and Dangers of Blowouts.

There is no evidence in 30,000 pages that changed our view that BP Corporate Safety Complacency was Astonishing.

BP cut a million here, a few days there, the same indifference to risk that caused failures on Wall Street.

BP did not pay attention to Halliburton advice because it would have taken 10 hours.

Cavalier BP attitude to risk is unacceptable.

Mr. Hayward, your corporate culture is to cut costs regardless of risks.

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Six years after a scathing 2001 internal review of BP's Alaska operations found that the company wasn't maintaining safety equipment, and faced "a fundamental lack of trust" among workers, a follow-up study concluded BP had made little headway in addressing those concerns.

The 2007 review, is based on a survey of more than 400 BP workers and contractors across Alaska greater Prudhoe Bay drilling fields.

Three of four workers surveyed said that BP's had not reduced maintenance backlogs of key equipment.

In testimony yesterday, BP CEO Tony Hayward said that he had made significant changes in the company since taking the reins in 2007, and that he had focused on safety "like a laser."

The conclusions of the report were crystallized in two PowerPoint slides and a series of graphics that were given to Pro Publica by a former senior BP manager.

Their validity was confirmed by Marc Kovac, a current BP employee who was part of the original 2001 review team, and helped conduct the 2007 follow-up and presented the data to senior management.

Nearly 80 percent of the workers interviewed said that gas and fire detection systems -- perhaps the most important equipment to saving lives and among the most critical in preventing an environmental disaster -- were either not functioning or were obsolete.

"We found that 50 percent of everything that was originally brought up was not fixed, it was ignored," said Kovac.

"BP plays the time game. People forget and they know that. So as long as they file reports and do investigations and produce paperwork, they know that people will eventually go on with their business."

Pro Publica disclosed that a series of internal BP investigations found that the company valued production and profits ahead of safety and maintenance.

The reports, combined with internal e-mails obtained by Pro Publica and several external government reviews of the company, showed that over a period of more than 10 years BP had allowed conditions of facilities to deteriorate in order to save money, and that it retaliated against workers who raised concerns about them.

"Roustabout" is an official classification of an oil rig worker. Roustabouts perform dangerous jobs requiring little training.