Faulty blowout preventers, errors in the management of drilling fluids, a sub-par cementing job, questionable well design, haste it was a confluence of these factors that led to the blowout.
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The next step will be -- and, again, these tests will be important in determining those next steps -- is the decisions to attempt a kill using this blowout preventer or using this blowout preventer simply to assist the relief well drilling, containment and capping procedures.
As a prelude to permanently shutting down the well, crews are trying to withdraw drill pipe hanging below the bottom of the blowout preventer and remove it from the well, so they can then remove the capping stack that's kept oil from leaking since July 15 and replace the old blowout preventer with a new one.
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Blowout preventers are not new technology, but BP has had issues with them before.
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Their wedding, on her eighteenth birthday, in 2007, was, from all reports, a great blowout.
The government says seeps have been spotted within two miles of the site of the blowout.
Cold comfort to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a BP gadfly since the blowout began.
We had a blowout sushi dinner with a couple of bottles of good Montrachet (white burgundy).
The cap installed on the top of the well is basically a second blowout preventer.
The second catalyst behind the blowout earnings can be found in sales of iPads to corporations.
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After this snafu, how much oil, then, is the blowout now pouring into the gulf?
Georgetown swept its longtime rival in two games this season, including a 61-39 blowout last Saturday.
The last time there was a blowout like this with loss of life was 1984.
The improvements are hardly akin to a blowout buyout like AOL's acquisition of Time Warner.
Industry in the Gulf still lacks the necessary assets to effectively respond to a catastrophic blowout.
The cost of a blowout in the Arctic, far from land, in frigid waters, is incalculable.
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Not exactly a blowout quarter, but investors were happy to hear some good news, however limited.
Then there was the blowout preventer, a huge stack of valves on the sea floor.
Bill Bradley, who dropped his bid after a blowout loss on Super Tuesday in early March.
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That may especially be the case if Goldman Sachs reports blowout earnings on Tuesday, as some expect.
In a blowout, the BOP has the ability to guillotine-slice through the pipe and seal the well.
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It is not clear if there was any attempt to activate the blowout preventer before the explosion.
The BP executives said that 50 minutes before the blowout, there were signs that something was wrong.
The player also said the hoax also did not affect his performance in the title game blowout.
Stan had been heading for a big blowout for weeks, she said, and she knew trouble was coming.
Louisville's women's team reached the NCAA final before their amazing run ended with a blowout loss to Connecticut.
Anadarko bankruptcy is worth considering for investors feeling tempted by the 50% plunge in shares since the blowout.
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It posted record profits in 2009, just a year after the worst financial blowout in a generation.
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Only a blowout for England would have sent the team to Cardiff with at least the championship secured.
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