mr. tillerson rrmark >-- mr. tillerson? >> that was a very brief conversation. >> with the president or with his advisers? >> with both. >> let me ask you a question. a week ago we went down to the gulf and had a hearing on the investigation. we heard from workers on the rig. i did not get a bit of information that date from yourself, transocean, halliburton, and others. i learned a lot more from the ladies talking about the phone calls that they had with their husbands, phone calls, when they came home for visits. there seemed to be a lot of concern about things that are happening on the rig. have any of you work on a rig? >> not a deep water rig, but i have worked on rigs during my career. >> it is that unusual? i go home and complain about mr. markey a lot. [laughter] it is that usual to have that level of anxiety that these people were sharing with their wives about the safety conditions on those offshore rigs? >> congressman, i have not looked at their testimony in detail, so i cannot comment directly to that. there we

mr. tillerson as will as some of the other plans, including conoco phillips, there is a dr. watts who is referred to as an expert, a technical support person. he died in 2005, four years before the plan was actually filed. how, mr. tillerson, can you justify a response plan in having a person who has been dead four years. >> it is but let me point out dr. lutz is part of the university of miami's marine mammal research which has been an important resource for preparation of the plans for yeers. the fact dr. lutz died in 2005 does not mean his work and importance of his work died with him. there are other many + individuals identified in the plan. >> it's 2010. >> those numbers are valid in the plan. >> it's 2010. you conclude dr. lutz's phone number in your plan for a response, that you have not taken this responsibility seriously. mr. mulva, the same true for you, is it an embarrassment for conoco phillips to have that as part of your plan? >> the plans need to be updated more completely. obviousll it is embarrassing but we look towards the institution and not necessarily t

mr. tillerson. our next witness is john watson, the chairman and exeef executive officer of the chevron corporation . he is a director and member of the american petroleum institute as well as a member of the national petroleum council. we recognize you, mr. watson. >> thank you, mr. markey. >> turn on your microphone and move it in a little closer. >> thank you chairman markey and ranking member upton. >> move the microphone in just a little closer. >> ok. very good. thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member upton. my name is john watson and i do lead chevron. as we meet today the tragedy in the gulf of mexico does continue to unfold. our thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones. workers who were injured and communities that are dealing with the economic and ecological damage. for chevron this tragedy is very personal. our employees knew people who died on the deep water horiion. more than 13,000 chevron employees live and work in the gulf region. we have a very personal stake in operati

mr. tillerson from exxonmobil who testified where you are two days ago, said they never, that they never would have drilled a well the way bp did at deep water rizon and who has ceos to hass presided over the destruction of over $100 billion in sharehold ever value. does that leader continue to enjoy and have a valid claim on the trust and confidence of employees, shareholders, public regulators and most important lit families and small business of the gulf coast? or is it time frankly to that ceo to consider to submit his says rig nation? i thank you and yield back. >> thank you. mr. greene for an opening statement, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hayward, i appreciate your testimony or being here this morning. and most people on this commite know i'm a big supporter of outer contineal shelf drilling and domestic energy production. and i understand from your testimony in our other hearings we've held in meetings with the administration that efforts to cap the well are going as expeditiously as possible however like many of my colleagues here, i'm frustrated that did it's been al

mr. tillerson from exxonmobil who testified where you are two days ago, said they never, that they never would have drilled a well the way bp did at deep water horizon and who has ceos to hass presided over the destruction of over $100 billion in sharehold ever value. does that leader continue to enjoy and have a valid claim on the trust and confidence of employees, shareholders, public regulators and most important lit families and small business of the gulf coast? or is it time frankly to that ceo to consider to submit his says rig nation? i thank you and yield back. >> thank you. mr. greene for an opening statement, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hayward, i appreciate your testimony or being here this morning. and most people on this committee know i'm a big supporter of outer continental shelf drilling and domestic energy production. and i understand from your testimony in our other hearings we've held in meetings with the administration that efforts to cap the well are going as expeditiously as possible however like many of my colleagues here, i'm frustrated that did it's b

mr. tillerson from exxonmobil who testified where you are two days ago, said they never, that they never would have drilled a well the way bp did at deep water horizon and who has ceos to hass presided over the destruction of over $100 billion in sharehold ever value. does that leader continue to enjoy and have a valid claim on the trust and confidence of employees, shareholders, public regulators and most important lit families and small business of the gulf coast? or is it time frankly to that ceo to consider to submit his says rig nation? i thank you and yield back. >> thank you. mr. greene for an opening statement, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hayward, i appreciate your testimony or being here this morning. and most people on this committee know i'm a big supporter of outer continental shelf drilling and domestic energy production. and i understand from your testimony in our other hearings we've held in meetings with the administration that efforts to cap the well are going as expeditiously as possible however like many of my colleagues here, i'm frustrated that did it's b

plans, in a hearing tuesday, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson said that once the spills occur, we're not equipped to handle them, end quote. our witness today mr. tony hayward is a chief executive officer of bp, shortly after mr. hayward took over as the ceo in 2007, he held a town hall meeting with employees in houston that. meing he discussed the need for bp to be a leader with fewer people in decision making process. this article and i ask you to put up the guardian article. in an articll from september 2007, guardian newspaper, hayward says o company has become too cautious, assurance is killing us, mr.ayward told u.s. staff noting that too many people were engaged in decision making leading to excessive cautiousness something that critics of its safety performance in the u.s. might question. let me put up these other notes from the same meeting. we received notes from bp of employees and their note taking from this meeting. the employee notes summit rised mr. hayward's statements as follows. i don't think having all these layers of assurance reduces risks and it can actually increase it. individuals need to be accountable for sk and to ma

mr. tillerson? that's an affirmative answer? >> i've had very brief conversations. >> with the president himself, or with his advisors? >> both. >> any of the rest of the gentlemen? >> i've had a very brief conversation, but not with the president. >> let me ask you a question. a week ago we went down to the gulf and had testimony on a field hearing oversight. we heard of two of the ladies that lost husbands on the rig. mr. president, you were present at our first session, and i didn't get a bit of information from yourself, transocean, and the blow-up manufacturer that was here. i learned a lot more from those two ladies talking about e-mails th they had had with their husbands, phone calls they had with their husbands when they came home for visits. it seems to me there was a lot of concern about things happening on the rig. i've never worked on a deepwater rig. have any of you worked on a deepwater rig. >> not a deep water rig, but i've worked on rigs in my career. >> i go home and complain about