APNewsBreak: Blowout preventer testing not started (AP)

Wed, 10/06/2010 - 18:23 EDT - Yahoo! Business News

AP - A Coast Guard official tells The Associated Press that the 300-ton device that failed to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has not been analyzed a month after it was raised from the seafloor.

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