Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100513:10:21:00
Supposed to be sort of a fail safe device that if they do get something like that, they flip all the switches and it shuts everything down, even cuts through the drill pipe if necessary. but you found there were problems with the blowup preventer, what was going on with it? >> well, the blowup preventer, it's almost comical, unfortunately, we have this economic disaster happening. it should cut off this pipe, cut it and seal off the well. there's deadman switches. well, we found that the batteries hasn't worked. when three months, the batteries went dead, therefore, you lost power to it, the b...
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