'Culture of complacency' ruled at companies, oil spill panel's co-chairman says

William K. Reilly, co-chair of the panel investigating the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the subsequent oil spill, says 'a suite of bad decisions' by BP, Transocean and Halliburton had been uncovered.A stream of evidence shows that "a culture of complacency" rather than a "culture of safety" prevailed at BP, Transocean and Halliburton as they worked on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to one of the chairmen of the presidential commission investigating the April 20 gulf oil spill.

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