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"Top Kill" has officially failed... BP ponders next bit of 1960s-tech to try to plug oil leak...
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Grateful11 wrote:
Where in the article linked is there anything about '60's Tech? Unless it the cutting off part, how anyone know that's 60's Tech unless you worked in the oil fields?

Nowhere.

But when they did exactly the same things in almost exactly the same sequence to no avail in the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, engineers complained that they were stuck using tech that was 20 years old.
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Re: "Top Kill" has officially failed... BP ponders next bit of 1960s-tech to try to plug oil leak... - by Doc - 05-30-2010, 01:14 AM

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