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BP removes Deepwater Horizon BOP from Macondo
… the well. The DDII will lower the replacement BOP onto the Macondo well, and then the BOP will be tested before relief well drilling resumes using the DDIII, Allen said. BP estimates the relief well will intercept the Macondo well in mid-September …
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BP starts collecting oil, gas from blowout well in gulf
… cost of the response to date amounts to $1.25 billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling , grants to the gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs. This excludes the $360 million in funds for the …
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Offshore ministerial forum stresses prompt spill response
… Montara offshore well blew out there in 2009. "About half the time the well was out of control was taken up before relief well drilling operations started working," he said. "This was a remote area where rigs were very far away and did not have …
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BP starts collecting oil and gas from blowout well
… response to date last week amounted to $1.43 billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling , grants to the gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs. This excludes the first $60 million in funds for …
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BP working on multiple options to stop gulf oil spill
… announced it has spent $350 million on spill response efforts at the ocean’s surface, subsea containment efforts, relief well drilling , and payments to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. BP and partners hired Transocean Ltd.’s …
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BP to use containment system, top kill on gulf oil spill
… the response of as May 10 amounted to about $350 million, including the cost of spill response, containment, relief well drilling , commitments to the Gulf Coast states, settlements, and federal costs, BP PLC said. An estimated 5,000 b …
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BP working on multiple options to stop gulf oil spill
… BP said it spent $450 million on spill response efforts at the ocean's surface, subsea containment efforts, relief well drilling , and payments to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. BP and partners hired Transocean Ltd.'s …
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BP pledges certain gulf assets as spill collateral
… oil spill as of Sept. 29 amounted to $11.2 billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling , static kill and cementing, grants to the gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs. BP operated the Macondo …
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BP continues integrity test; government reports seep
… expected to begin to kill the flow of oil and gas from the reservoir by pumping specialized heavy fluids down the relief well . Drilling of a second relief well, which started May 16, have been paused at 15,874 ft measured depth so as not to interfere …
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Macondo relief well near target; static kill called effective
… cost of the response to date amounts to $6.1 billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling , static kill and cementing, grants to the gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs. Previously, BP created …
