BP to remove broken blowout preventer ahead of final kill operation

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Procedure not expected to be completed until after Labor Day weekend

BP is not expected to complete the "kill" operation on its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico until after the 6 September Labor Day holiday after US officials ordered the company to fit a new...

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