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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

With New 'Kill Switch,' BP Ready for Next Oil Spill

With New 'Kill Switch,' BP Ready for Next Oil Spill

Chris Helman, Forbes
Two years ago BP engineers were churning their wheels trying to devise one method after another to cap and kill the gushing Macondo well. Now the company says it has built a system that — if such a disaster ever recurred — could cap the blowout in relatively short order.Gone are the catchy names like Top Kill, Junk Shot, Top Hat. Instead, BP’s system is called the Global Deepwater Well Cap and Tooling Package.

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