But post Macondo, Uncle Sam made MMR roll the rig back out of the way and close off the well before a flow test could be completed (No longer a requirement).

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When the oil and gas reached the rig, they were diverted not overboard, as might have been wiser, but to a system called the mud-gas separator which spewed gas back onto the rig.

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Calling the dividend back into question would punish RIG shareholders, not on the company itself.

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His 30-foot aluminum rig is full and motoring back toward the dock in Henry, Illinois.

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His 30-foot aluminum rig is full and motoring back toward the dock in Henry, Ill.

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Meanwhile, five big-rig trucks roar up to the back of the building in the space of just 15 minutes, as employees load them up with unmarked brown boxes.

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Well, for starters Transocean owned, leased and operated the deepwater rig from which all the problems arose back on April 20.

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During the three hours it took to move the rig out of the way, the debris fell back to the bottom of the hole and clogged up the perforations.

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This is what this data is supposed to monitor, but the well flow evidence would appear to have been ignored, because at this point the BP rig supervisors should have gone to a well kill operation and started to pump heavy mud back into the well bore to restore the primary control mechanism.

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