Thursday, June 3, 2010

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: BP fits cap on ruptured wellhead

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7802390/Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-spill-BP-fits-cap-on-ruptured-wellhead.html

Keep your fingers crossed kids
We need all the luck we can get

The US Coast Guard confirmed that British-based BP had successfully attached the cylindrical well cap onto the jagged top of the crippled wellhead assembly using underwater robots, CNN reported.

"The placement of the containment cap is another positive development in BP's most recent attempt to contain the leak," Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said in the statement while adding that it would take "some time" to gauge the cap's ability to stem the oil, CNN said.


Even if successful, this is only a temporary and partial fix and we must continue our aggressive response, operations at the source, on the surface and along the Gulf's precious coastline," Mr Allen added, according to CNN.