tests find rams on Macondo well’s BOP worked with proper hydraulic pressure

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The powerful rams on the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout npreventer were capable of closing off the flow of oil and naturalngas at the time of last year’s Macondo disaster in the Gulf of nMexico, one member of a forensic examination team said last nweek.nDan Tillema, an investigator with the Chemical Safety nBoard, said the team examining the BOP in Louisiana con-nducted tests in January and February that showed that with the nproper amount of hydraulic fluid pressure, the rams on the BOPnwould close.