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Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer.
Gulf Fisherman On Oil Spill: 'Our Way Of Life Is Over. It's The End, The Apocalypse' 2010
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The giant British oil company could begin cutting through the riser that's spewing oil and gas into the Gulf as soon as Wednesday, after which they will attempt to place the cap-like containment device that would siphon the mixture to the surface.
Cut-And-Cap: Robot Submarines Set Up Next Gulf Oil Spill Containment Effort 2010
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Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer.
Gulf Oil Spill: Best Chance To Stop Leak Won't Be Ready Until August 2010
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The giant British oil company could begin cutting through the riser that's spewing oil and gas into the Gulf as soon as Wednesday, after which they will attempt to place the cap-like containment device that would siphon the mixture to the surface.
Cut-And-Cap: Robot Submarines Set Up Next Gulf Oil Spill Containment Effort 2010
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Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer.
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In this week's operation, BP engineers plan to cut the pipe leaking at the wellhead with a diamond-edged saw and then place a cap-like containment valve over the well.
Cut-And-Cap: Robot Submarines Set Up Next Gulf Oil Spill Containment Effort 2010
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The giant British oil company could begin cutting through the riser that's spewing oil and gas into the Gulf as soon as Wednesday, after which they will attempt to place the cap-like containment device that would siphon the mixture to the surface.
Cut-And-Cap: Robot Submarines Set Up Next Gulf Oil Spill Containment Effort The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Perhaps it was just wanting those pockets and little cap-like sleeves and something simple for work that made me delusional. sigh.
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He was a stubby man with a cap-like mass of short gray curls and clothes which, no matter how well cut, seemed shaggy.
Babbit 2004
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Both eyestalks had retracted as far as they could, giving the native's eyes the appearance of resting directly on the cap-like upper portion of its olive-gray body.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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