BP says failed blowout preventer off Gulf well
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Friday September 03, 2010 10:52:18 PM GMT
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HOUSTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - BP Plc removed a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Friday afternoon, a company spokesman said.
"The Deepwater Horizon BOP stack was successfully detached" from the Macondo well shortly after 1 p.m. CDT (1800 GMT), spokesman Daren Beaudo said.
BP will replace the failed blowout preventer with a working one and then resume drilling a relief well to plug the leak for good, the company said. (Reporting by Kristen Hays)
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