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Like the fickle Macondo village of fictional fame that bounced between feast and famine, the Macondo Project would not easily give up its fortunes. With the reputation as a difficult well, only those drillers most confident could vie for an expected bounty worth perhaps $40 billion.
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Read, C. (2011). What Went Wrong — A Congressional Perspective. In: BP and the Macondo Spill. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305083_13
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