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James Dupree, who led BP’s efforts to seal its Macondo well, said engineers didn’t have the equipment they needed to attack this particular well at the time of the blowout and had to formulate several ...
The blowout preventer that failed on the Macondo well last year was four years overdue for maintenance under driller Transocean’s internal guidelines, a US regulator said.