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BP Gulf Oil Spill: A Look Back [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsOn April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a massive explosion off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and releasing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Take a look back at the photos that captured the damage the oil spill caused to the Gulf's wildlife and industries. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=996772&pid=996771&uts=1303223363 ...
Not Just the Alarm: BP Deepwater Horizon Rig Riddled With Tech Glitches Before Explosion
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 23) -- As testimony into the BP oil spill continues on Capitol Hill, more and more facts are emerging that suggest the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of not a single device or person, but rather a long series of human and mechanical failures. Here are the latest pieces of evidence to support that theory: Silent Alarms Perhaps the most damning detail to emerge thus far: The alarms that should have warned BP when methane and other gasses had built up to dangerous levels were in fact set to silent just before the rig blew, ostensibly ...
BP, Halliburton Execs Refuse Oil Spill Blame at Senate Hearing
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyExecutives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton appeared at a Senate hearing Tuesday to testify about their companies' roles in the catastrophic oil spill still ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico. But each took pains to deflect blame for explosion that compromised the Deepwater Horizon oil well and the disastrous gush of oil from the well that has followed. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, blasted the testimony and said the executives were more concerned with avoiding legal responsibility for their companies than getting to the true cause ...
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