Guardian: 1 Well design Charge BP dangerously cut corners on the cementing and casing of the Macondo well to save money as its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation ran over budget and behind schedule. Phil Gingrey, a Republican from Georgia, wanted to know whether Hayward, if he had been on the doomed platform, would have made the same decisions as his engineers. Hayward’s response The BP chief executive said he had virtually no personal involvement in the operation of the well. “The …