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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Chevron began drilling this ultradeep well over a year ago, with the objective of boring down to big sub-salt prospects 29, 000 feet beneath the surface.

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