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[-told]: We did not know then the full impact of the spill or the results, but we knew then it would be a catastrophic event,

time 20-APR-11

[-said]: While we focused on a tanker accident after Exxon Valdez and how to avoid that in the future, the oil industry moved off and went deep,

smh 19-APR-11

[-said]: there was a huge amount of research and development into spill response,

smh 19-APR-11

[ said]: The equipment is in the region and would have to be transported to the site and installed. There would be a time period of 10-12 days, depending where the well is,

smh 19-APR-11

[-said]: There is still oil being cleaned up,

smh 19-APR-11

[-decline]: When I asked them a question I got an answer.

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: working dinners,

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: a huge question,

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: Senior leaders aren't allowed that luxury.

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: I pressed on against some pretty good criticism by local political leaders that I was incompetent,

thestar 16-APR-11

[-told]: Everyone wants to know, was there a sole cause, who's accountable, who's responsible for what happened,

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: They were both professional, they were both responsive,

thestar 16-APR-11

[-said]: Obviously Tony Hayward on a couple of occasions revealed some personal opinions about what was going on,

thestar 16-APR-11

[ said]: At this point the lack of a forward operating base would be a significant impediment not only to oil spill response but to search and rescue,

news 07-FEB-11

[-said]: Today the National Incident Command is disestablished and I have transferred oversight of the BP oil spill response to Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft, the unified area commander, in New Orleans,

news 01-OCT-10

[-said]: Our commitment to this response and the people of the Gulf of Mexico remains,

irishsun 01-OCT-10

[-told]: Folks, this has resulted in cognitive dissonance all over the country,

irishsun 30-SEP-10

[-said]: The answer is no,

guardian 28-SEP-10

[-said]: The public's tolerance for the responsible party is inversely proportional to the size of the spill,

cnn 27-SEP-10

[ said]: Something we might want to consider is the creation of a qualified individual that would represent the industry, oversee the response, have access to the resources, but basically would be firewalled from any fiduciary link back to the shareholders, almost putting the resources in trust, and having them executed by an industry expert,

voanews 27-SEP-10

[-said]: created a lot of concern,

cnn 27-SEP-10

[described:]: the social and the political nullification of a national contingency plan

news 27-SEP-10

[-said]: The economic impact of beach closures is significant, but there's a presumption in the response doctrine that you will push oil to a beach and it's going to be recovered there,

cnn 27-SEP-10

[-said]: With this development, which has been confirmed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, we can finally announce that the Macondo 252 well is effectively dead,

sptimesrussi 20-SEP-10

[ said]: I commend the response personnel, both from the government and private sectors, for seeing this vital procedure through to the end,

irishsun 20-SEP-10

[ said]: We can finally announce that the Macondo 252 well is effectively dead,

guardian 20-SEP-10

[ said]: Additional regulatory steps will be undertaken but we can now state, definitively, that the Macondo well poses no continuing threat to the Gulf of Mexico,

irishsun 20-SEP-10

[-added]: After months of extensive operations, planning and execution under the direction and authority of the US government science and engineering teams, BP has successfully completed the relief well by intersecting and cementing the well nearly 18,000ft [3.4 miles] below the surface,

guardian 20-SEP-10

[-said]: is effectively dead.

irishsun 19-SEP-10

[-said]: effectively dead,

aljazeera 19-SEP-10

[-said]: With this development, which has been confirmed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, we can finally announce that the Macondo 252 well is effectively dead,

cnn 19-SEP-10

[-said]: After months of extensive operations, planning and execution under the direction and authority of the U.S. government science and engineering teams, BP has successfully completed the relief well by intersecting and cementing the well nearly 18,000 feet below the surface,

bday 19-SEP-10

[-said]: Although the well is now dead, we remain committed to continue aggressive efforts to clean up any additional oil we may see going forward,

smh 19-SEP-10

[-said]: Additional regulatory steps will be undertaken but we can now state definitively that the Macondo Well poses no continuing threat to the Gulf of Mexico,

irishsun 19-SEP-10

[-said]: confirmed that the cementing operation on the Macondo well was successful, that the well has been permanently sealed with cement plugs, and that pressure tests verify the integrity of the plugs.

thestar 19-SEP-10

[-said]: and complete the bottom kill of the well,

latimes 17-SEP-10

[-said]: The aggregate data available supports the conclusion that the two wells are joined,

HindustanTimes 17-SEP-10

[ said]: Through a combination of sensors embedded in the drilling equipment and sophisticated instrumentation ... BP engineers and the federal science team have concluded that the Development Driller III relief well has intersected the Macondo well,

cnn 17-SEP-10

[-said]: The final question in this whole killing of the well has been the condition of the annulus,

latimes 16-SEP-10

[-said]: I worked well with Tony Hayward, and I work well with Bob Dudley,

irishsun 16-SEP-10

[-said]: I worked well with Tony Hayward and I work well with Bob Dudley,

newschannel5 15-SEP-10

[-said]: Four days from now it could all be done. This is the window we are looking at right now.

guardian 15-SEP-10

[-said]: We are within a 96-hour window of killing the well,

newschannel5 15-SEP-10

[-said]: It could be sooner, depending on when the intercept occurs,

thestar 15-SEP-10

[-announce]: I understand why people feel the way they do, and there is little doubt that the inability of BP, and the industry, to intervene to seal the leak ... was unacceptable.

newschannel5 15-SEP-10

[-told]: I would just say the more we know about this event in general, the better off we are,

cnn 09-SEP-10

[-said]: We'll have to refer that to the Department of Justice. There were some constraints put on that videotaping based on the people that are looking at the blowout preventer and their identities and so forth, and I think there's, there may be some security issues associated with it.

cnn 08-SEP-10

[-said]: from this point out it doesn't involve the spill itself.

cnn 08-SEP-10

[-said]: Once that happens, the blowout preventer will be lifted [and] brought to the surface,

upi 02-SEP-10

[-said]: We've run into a weather window that's got us in a hold,

cnn 02-SEP-10

[-warned that]: That said, there will be containment vessels on standby just in case they're needed.

NPRnews 02-SEP-10

[-said]: In the best of all possible worlds, when we lift the blowout preventer it will come free with the pipe,

upi 02-SEP-10

[-said]: We will not know the exact status until they get that thing ashore and look inside,

CBSnews 01-SEP-10

[-said]: The goal there will be to secure the annulus as quick as we can,

CBSnews 01-SEP-10

[-said]: We do believe the risks are small for a hydrocarbon release,

scientificamerican 01-SEP-10

[-said]: We do believe the risks are small for any hydrocarbon release,

CBSnews 01-SEP-10

[-said]: We've come to the conclusion that any more attempts at fishing are probably not going to result in success,

reuters 27-AUG-10

[-said]: Our first goal is to do no harm,

cnn 26-AUG-10

[-said]: It's obviously harder if the pipe is still in the blowout preventer,

usaToday 23-AUG-10

[-said]: Replace them with who?

msnbc 22-AUG-10

[-said]: The procedure should recognize and preserve the forensic and evidentiary value of the BOP stack, capping stack, and any other equipment or material removed or recovered, including but not limited to compliance with any Physical Evidence Collection directives issued by the Joint Investigation Team,

msnbc 22-AUG-10

[-said]: That may seem a little bit at odds and maybe not well understood by the American public or even some leaders, but it is in fact how we have been managing oil spills in this country for 20 years,

msnbc 22-AUG-10

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