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Experts question BP’s take on Gulf oil spill (AP)

Mark Bly, BP Group Head of Safety and Operations, testifies before the National Academy of Engineering committee In Washington Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Experts probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill exposed holes in BP's internal investigation as the company was questioned for the first time in public about its findings. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP – Engineering experts probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill exposed holes in BP’s internal investigation as the company was questioned Sunday for the first time in public about its findings.


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BP’s oil well near death, but disaster is not over (AP)

The Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, is seen in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, on the day the cementing was completed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – The impending death of BP’s blown-out oil will bring one piece of the catastrophe that began five months ago to an anticlimactic end — after all, the gusher was capped in July.


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Cement flows for permanent plug of BP’s Gulf well (AP)

FILE - The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. A relief well drilled nearly 2.5 miles beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has intersected BP's blown-out well, a prelude to plugging it once and for all, the U.S government said late Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. The final seal should happen by Sunday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP – Crews are pumping cement into BP’s blown-out oil well thousands of feet below the sea bottom, working to permanently seal the runaway well.


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Feds: BP’s Gulf well to be killed after Labor Day (AP)

Mangrove Island, a delicate breading ground for Louisiana's brown pelicans located in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, La., is covered with birds and surrounded by boom Wednesday, Aug. 18.  2010. Some of the boom has washed ashore and oil effected birds are being rescued everyday, though the numbers are decreasing rapidly.  (AP Photo/Kerry Maloney)AP – The U.S. government said Thursday the final plugging of BP’s blown-out Gulf well will begin sometime after Labor Day.


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Feds: Relief drilling needed to kill BP’s well (AP)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – BP’s blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet plugged for good, and work on what’s been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the federal government said Friday.


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Decision expected on plug for BP’s broken oil well (AP)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – Officials could know by early Friday if BP’s broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good.


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Crush of mud finally plugs BP’s well in the Gulf (AP)

Ships work near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP said Wednesday that it had succeeded in plugging a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, signalling an end to the worst spill in the United States' history.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)AP – In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gusher of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.


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