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Oil-Rig Last Resort Not So Failsafe

Gulf Disaster

Blowout preventers often fail, studies show.

We’ve heard it several times since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded: Why didn’t the blowout preventer work? It turns out, though, that blowout preventers may not be the failsafe that the oil companies pretend they are.

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