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BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
Days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose a type of casing that it knew was the riskier of two options, a BP document showed.
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BP in ’04 made Gulf rig riskier
BP agreed in 2004 to the installation of a test valve and replacement of another key part on the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer, although it acknowledged that doing so would reduce redundancies and increase risks on the drilling rig. The agreement was the subject of a letter, obtained by…
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