BP attempts to share blame for Gulf disaster

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BP accuses Transocean of missing danger signs and Halliburton of providing a "bad cement job"

BP today attempted to shift some of the blame for Gulf of Mexico oil spill on to the other companies working on the Macondo well, concluding in its internal review of the disaster that "a sequence of failures...

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