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Originally Posted by fotze
There is usually at least triple redundancy, still curious to see how they fataed up a well of this size. Small gas wells you can cut corners because if everything fails you just move a box of apples on top. The drillers on these rigs are the best of the best so who knows. I imagine they function test the BOP's every day and possibly more often than that.
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I don't know if this was posted here or not but apparently there were issues with the BOP and they knew about it. There was also a disagreement as how to seal the well and take the mud out between the drilling crew and the BP company man.