BP rig worker claims he reported oil leak weeks before Deepwater Horizon disaster

Joe Schoffstall | June 21, 2010
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A rig worker has claimed that he told both BP and the rig operator of a problem with a piece of equipment blamed by many for causing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He says he gave the warning weeks before the explosion at the rig, and says the problem was not fixed at the time. Tyrone Benton says that he spotted a leak on the rig's Blowout Preventer.

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