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  • There is devastating damage to some of these buildings, said Mr. Bakken, referring to the blown-out windows and crumbling former edifices of government life in Oslo.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed CHANTAIE ALLICK 2011

  • New drilling rules have been imposed, a high-tech system for capping a blown-out well and containing the oil has been built, and regulators have taken steps to ramp up oversight of the industry.

    BP adopts stricter safety standards for offshore drilling 2011

  • Far out in the Gulf, BP oil has lodged in sediment on the sea floor in spots within about two miles of the blown-out well, another federal study found.

    BP Spill's Next Major Phase: Wrangling Over Toll on Gulf Jeffrey Ball 2011

  • There are few people who can claim direct knowledge of the ocean floor, at least before the invention of the spill-cam, last year's strangely compulsive live feed of the oil billowing out of BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill? 2011

  • Aside from BP, the primary owner of the blown-out Macondo well, no company has faced more criticism for the deadly explosion and resulting oil spill than Halliburton.

    Halliburton Emerges From Gulf Disaster Unscathed Ben Casselman 2011

  • Manson told the tour group that the noise was a blown-out window.

    Man commits suicide at Crystal Cathedral altar 2009

  • My beer gut is going to the land of the lost dryer socks and blown-out chodes.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • If it isn't, legal experts say the fines will be smaller and BP will have a better chance of clawing back some of the costs from its license partners in the blown-out well: Anadarko Corp. and an arm of Japan's Mitsui & Co., MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC.

    BP Gets Lift From Oil-Spill Report Guy Chazan 2011

  • Meanwhile on Friday, television footage from Syria's state channels showed burned and mangled cars with blown-out windows, and blood and debris in the aftermath of the suicide bombing in Damascus, which went off near a bus carrying police officers in a populous neighborhood.

    New Blast Hits Syria as Monitors Visit Farnaz Fassihi 2012

  • The company owned a 25% stake in the blown-out well.

    Anadarko Loss Widens on BP Settlement Drew FitzGerald 2011

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