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White House plans new offshore-well rules

1920s blowout preventers need redesign after ’10 spill

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Photographs by THOMAS M. BLUE / Bloomberg News/U.S. Coast Guard

Obama administration officials last week outlined plans for new rules designed to boost the reliability and power of emergency equipment safeguarding offshore wells, two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster revealed shortcomings in the devices.

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  • Headline: White House plans new offshore-well rules
  • Publication: Business, Pages 23 on 05/28/2012
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