All right.
In the area of preventing a spill or a leakage or blowout, I'm hearing the following three things from the witnesses we've heard.
First, the way to prevent a spill is by increasing the scientific and technical knowledge about how you drill and about what's down there and about how you safely go through the different zones. That would be number one.
The second way is to eliminate the chance of human error, to the highest possible extent, through increased training and safety methods.
The third is to research and develop newer and safer equipment to eliminate the incidence or chance of equipment failure to the highest extent possible.
That's what I am getting on the side of preventing a possible blowout.
What I'm getting in the event of a spill is again the importance of increasing scientific knowledge. You need to be able to deal with the oil in the water and know how to disperse it, and you need to know the technical aspects of how to gather it up and contain it. As well, you need an advance containment remediation plan. Third, you need to have the logistics and the infrastructure to carry out the physical part of cleaning up an accident.
Those things appear to me to be ongoing work. We're always looking to increase our scientific and technical knowledge to find safer ways of doing things and to decrease the chance of human error and equipment failure. Then there's the clean-up side.
Is it fair to say that we have reasons to have all of those as ongoing areas in trying to improve or minimize the chances of a spill?
That's a long question. I'm sorry.