British Petroleum’s top kill failed to seal oil gusher
Washington: British Petroleum (BP) failed to seal off the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico after three days of trying the so-called top kill effort, BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles has said.
The growing ecological disaster – the largest marine oil spill in US history – entered its 40th day Saturday even as BP struggled to contain the flow of crude oil from the ruptured well head.
“We have been unable to overcome the pressure of the well,” Suttles said Saturday of the so-called top kill attempt to shut down the flow. “We made numerous attempts.
Over the past three days, BP engineers forced 30,000 barrels of heavy engineered mud down into the well and also shot rubber objects into the wellhead, but to no avail.
Suttles said BP will now turn to the “lower marine riser package”, or LMRP, technique, which officials hope will be operating within four to seven days. This is a variation on the current siphon and would entail cutting off the jagged riser pipe at the well head and covering it with a new containment dome to capture more of the flow and siphon it to the surface.
Source: MSN
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