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BP came within 1.4 inches of preventing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, engineers hired by U.S. investigators said in a new report, blaming the design of the well's blowout preventer rather than misuse or maintenance.
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Halliburton officials criticized the methodology that BP used to draw its conclusions and claim that the well's design played no role in the incident.
Mark Bly, BP Oil Spill Lead Investigator, Admits Limitations With Internal Probe AP 2010
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Either way, Transocean said it's the responsibility of the well's owner to set all specifications for the drilling process.
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BP, the well's owner, is racing to shut off the well using eight remote controlled submarines, but has had no luck as of yet.
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BP, the well's owner and lead operator of the project, has sought to turn attention to Transocean, which had a contract to drill the well for BP using its Deepwater Horizon drill rig.
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He says that there must have been a failure of the well's cementing or the casing that holds the wells in place.
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But those bubbles, BP said, were nitrogen, a byproduct of the nitrified foam used in setting the well's surface casing cement, and are expected.
Coast Guard, BP Find No Evidence of Leaking Well Ryan Dezember 2011
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Halliburton says it likely would have insisted on redesigning the well's production casing if it had known about an additional hydrocarbon zone that BP allegedly failed to disclose.
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The second well's driller can get back up to $22.5 million and the third, $20 million.
New Energy Estimate Breathes Life Into a Declining Alaskan Oil Field Ryan Dezember 2011
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At a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, BP, the well's owner and lead operator of the project, sought to turn attention to Transocean, which had a contract to drill the well for BP using its Deepwater Horizon drill rig.
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