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Capture the oil from the well. but the company expects this is a capture number 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day by the end of the month and possibly 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day by the middle of next month. that's compared to the 15,000 barrels bp is collecting now. admiral allen in charge of the government response saying he expects bp to be containing 28,000 barrels a day by the end of the week. new evidence raising questions about the decisions bp made in the days and weeks leading up to the explosion. bp chose time and money at the expense of safety, including by using a cheaper design fo...

Days before the explosion a bp drilling engineer having written, quote, this has been a nightmare well in which has everyone all over the place." halliburton kept pushing for more centralizers to make sure the well was centered. a bp official complained it will taken ten hours to install them. i do not like this. that same day one bp engineer writing to another to say that the decision not to add centralizers would stand. quote, who cares. it's done. end of story. we'll probably be fine. instead parts of that very rig are now washing ashore three states away. a storage tank still oozing oil to...

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