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The president's remarks were part of a stepped-up White House effort to show Obama is actively engaged in dealing with the spill and to distance itself from the London-based oil giant, formerly known as British Petroleum. Polls have shown a majority of Americans believe Obama has handled the crisis poorly.

The administration has stopped using the same figures as BP any more for how much oil is flowing from the blown-out well and how much is being captured.

Collecting oil
BP said on Tuesday it had collected 14,800 barrels of oil from the leaking well on Monday, 33 percent higher than the amount collected on Sunday and the highest capture rate since it installed a new system last week to contain the spill.

The latest attempt involves a containment cap placed on top of the gushing pipe on the ocean floor. The total amount of oil collected over four days was about 42,500 barrels, BP said

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the top U.S. official overseeing the cleanup effort, said on Monday neither BP nor the government knew just how much oil was gushing out of the well. "That's the big unknown right now," he said.

BP has given conservative estimates of the oil flow that have been ridiculed by scientists and U.S. lawmakers. Even the government's much higher estimates of 12,000-19,000 barrels a day seemed on the low side after Allen said the company planned to double its collection of oil from the well to 20,000 barrels every day.

Allen said on Tuesday U.S. scientists would present revised estimates later this week or early next week.

BP said will get rid of some of the oil being recaptured from a spill by burning it off.

BP spokesman Max McGahan said the rig carrying the burner will be moved away from the main leak site so flames and heat do not endanger other vessels.

Another BP spokesman, Robert Wine, said the company will also boost capacity by bringing in a floating platform it believes can process most of the flow.

Safety rules ignored?
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported Tuesday that a series of internal investigations over the past decade had found BP repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules.

The Post article, by nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, said a series of accidents before the explosion on Deepwater Horizon meant BP faced a possible ban on new U.S. drilling leases and federal contracting, citing former Environmental Protection Agency officials.

"They are a recurring environmental criminal and they do not follow U.S. health safety and environmental policy," said Jeanne Pascal, a former EPA lawyer who led its BP investigations, told ProPublica.

In 1999, BP pleaded guilty to illegal dumping at an offshore drilling field in Alaska, the article reported. To avoid a contract cancellation with the federal government, the company agreed to a five-year probationary plan with the EPA.

Less than a year later, employees complained to an independent arbitrator that the company was letting equipment and critical safety systems languish at its Greater Prudhoe Bay drilling field, the article said.

Independent experts hired by BP identified systemic problems in maintenance and inspections. They warned BP that it faced a "fundamental culture of mistrust" by its workers.

The experts' report said that "unacceptable" maintenance backlogs ballooned as BP tried to sustain profits despite declining production, the ProPublica article said.

Hayward become chief executive in 2007 and has made commitments to reform the company.

Toby Odone, a company spokesman, told ProPublica that the notion that BP has ongoing problems addressing worker concerns was "essentially groundless."

He said under Hayward the company had worked to ensure there were "responsible operations at every BP operation."

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