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Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environmental disaster.
tags: ap, business, deepwater horizon, environmental disaster, exxon valdez disaster, federal minerals management serv, offshore drilling
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Underwater robots positioned a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box over a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as workers prepared to drop the device to the seafloor in a first-of-its-kind attempt to stop oil gushing into the sea.
tags: ap, business, chandeleur islands, deepwater horizon, exxon valdez disaster, minerals management service, oil spill
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Top hats and junk shots are on the list of possible next steps as BP, casting about after a 100-ton containment box failed, settles in for a long fight to stop its uncontrolled oil gusher a mile under the Gulf of Mexico.
tags: ap, business, drill rig, drill ship, exxon valdez disaster
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BP Plc said on Monday it had incurred $350 million in costs so far from the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as fears mounted of a prolonged and growing environmental and economic disaster.
tags: chandeleur islands, exxon valdez disaster, gulf coast states, oil spill, top stories, u.s. minerals management service
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Icy slush foiled plans to use a giant box to contain the uncontrolled oil gusher in the Gulf, leaving BP pondering an alternate solution at sea, while on land, helicopters were expected to drop sandbags in Louisiana to guard against thick blobs of crude t
tags: ap, blowout preventer, business, deepwater horizon, drill ship, exxon valdez disaster
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Top oil executives face a second day of grilling by U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday over a deadly well rupture that unleashed a huge oil slick and the specter of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
tags: alabama, exxon valdez disaster, top stories
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U.S. lawmakers pressed oil executives about flaws in a crucial well safety device on Wednesday while BP scrambled with its latest deep-sea effort to control the huge Gulf of Mexico spill that threatens environmental disaster.
tags: bp shares, deepwater horizon, exxon valdez disaster, offshore drilling, representative bart stupak, reuters, top stories
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Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed oil executives about flaws in an important safety device on a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well as BP pushed another effort to control a huge oil spill that threatens an environmental disaster.
tags: bp shares, deepwater horizon, exxon valdez disaster, oil spill, representative bart stupak, reuters, top stories
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Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed oil executives about flaws in an important safety device on a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well as BP pushed another effort to control a huge oil spill that threatens an environmental disaster.
tags: bp shares, deepwater horizon, exxon valdez disaster, oil spill, representative bart stupak, reuters, top stories
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Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed oil executives about flaws in an important safety device on a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well as BP pushed another effort to control a huge oil spill that threatens an environmental disaster.
tags: bp shares, deepwater horizon, exxon valdez disaster, oil spill, representative bart stupak, reuters, top stories
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