BP "kill" operation could be delayed until September

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Officials insist further pressure tests are required, amidst concerns operation could lead to fresh rupture of the well

The operation to finally "kill" BP's ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico could be delayed until early September after officials insisted yesterday that further tests were required before engineers...

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