A battle had been heating up between Transocean (NYSE:RIG) and other oil companies over the major piece of evidence in the Macondo oil well disaster.
The blowout preventer was the center of the dispute, where concerns over the proper care of it and the potential compromising of its condition were at issue.
For some reason the government said it wasn't going to flush seawater and other fluids out of the control pods. Transocean said if that wasn't done, corrosion could easily set in, causing problems which could lead to malfunction as a result.
To settle the issue, the government did a turnaround and said they'll flush the control pods on the blowout preventer to keep it from corroding before it's examined to see why it failed.
Judge Barbier consequently denied a motion by Transocean to compel the government to protect the device while it was the target of the investigation because of the problem being resolved.
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