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BP: Oil sheen in Gulf not from Macondo site

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Oil giant BP Plc indicated that a new oil sheen discovery in the Gulf of Mexico has nothing to do with its operations, and is far from the site of its disaster-hit Macondo well. BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said the company sent several mini-submersibles into the water over the weekend to investigate the source of the sheen — a shiny coating that floats on the surface of the water which could come from leaked or spilled oil — but had concluded "that it couldn't have been from anything of ours."   Full article.