Transocean hits back at BP's "self-serving report"

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Rig operator rejects BP's assertion that well design was unlikely to have caused Gulf disaster

Transocean has hit back at BP's claim that it must take a large chunk of the blame for the explosion on its Deepwater Horizon rig, accusing the oil giant of producing a "self-serving" accident report that...

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