A cement plug finally has permanently sealed BP’s leaking well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. The end came five months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to ...

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Previously, only American companies manufactured the plugs used for solving numerous deepwell problems like lost-circulation, sidetracking or directional drilling, according to RIPI. "The technology ...