~~ Ronald Reagan ~~
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Well is Capped, Oil Leak Stops
Let’s celebrate. Yea!
BP said Thursday that it has stopped oil from leaking out of its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. The gusher has been throttled for the first time since the April 20 blowout on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
Kent Wells, BP’s senior vice president of exploration and production, told reporters that a new capping mechanism shut off the flow of crude from the Macondo well at 3:25 p.m. EDT. He made the announcement after engineers gradually shut off valves to test the pressure. The engineers are monitoring the pressure to see whether the new cap and the well bore hold.
Posted by Sara
on 07/15/2010 at 02:01 PM in Environment -
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