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<title><![CDATA[Offshore ministerial forum stresses prompt spill response]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Immediate access to technology, equipment, and personnel to promptly cap and contain offshore crude oil spills is essential, participants generally agreed during a day-long international forum at the US Department of the Interior.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Offshore ministerial forum emphasizes prompt response to spills]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:55:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Immediate access to technology, equipment, and personnel to promptly cap and contain offshore crude oil spills is essential, participants generally agreed during a day-long international forum at the US Department of the Interior.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP pledges certain gulf assets as spill collateral]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BP PLC pledged certain Gulf of Mexico assets as collateral for the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust, which was established to pay claims arising from the Apr. 20 Macondo well blowout, explosion on Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible, and an oil spill.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP pledges certain gulf assets as spill collateral]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:40:10 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BP PLC pledged certain Gulf of Mexico assets as collateral for the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust, which was established to pay claims arising from the Apr. 20 Macondo well blowout, explosion on Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible, and an oil spill.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP confirms completion of Macondo well kill operations]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The deepwater Macondo well, source of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, was killed, operator BP PLC said Sept. 19 in a long-awaited announcement.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP confirms completion of Macondo well kill operations]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:25:20 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The deepwater Macondo well, source of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has been killed, operator BP PLC said Sept. 19 in a long-awaited announcement after scientists and engineers confirmed both the casing and annulus of the well were sealed by cement.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Relief well intercepts Macondo well in gulf]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:45:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A relief well drilled by crews on Transocean Ltd.’s Development Driller III semisubmersible intercepted the annulus of the deepwater Macondo well on Sept. 16, and BP PLC expects crews will completely seal the Macondo well on Sept. 18.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP removes Deepwater Horizon BOP from Macondo]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well, removed the failed Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer on Sept. 3 and started to slowly lift it through 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico to the Helix Q4000 multiservice vessel.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP starts removing Deepwater Horizon BOP]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:50 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BP PLC has started operations to replace the Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible's failed blowout preventer with the Development Driller II’s BOP so that a relief well can be completed on the deepwater Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Macondo pressure test due before relief well resumes]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BP PLC planned another pressure test last week on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico to gain more information about the condition of the annulus before penetration by a relief well.]]></description>
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