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Deepwater Horizon: Top kill fails
BP’s efforts to staunch the flow of oil from its ruptured wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico have failed.
The ‘top kill’ operation – pumping drilling mud over the leak – was followed by a ‘junk shot’ to force debris into fissures in the leaking pipe. Neither attempt worked
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