Top Kill Effort to Stop Oil Leak Initially Working
Posted on May 27, 2010 Comments (3)
‘Top kill’ stops gulf oil leak for now, official says
Engineers have at least temporarily stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
The “top kill” effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block oil and gas spewing from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, he said, but persisting. The top kill effort is not complete, officials caution.
Once engineers had reduced the well pressure to zero, they were to begin pumping cement into the hole to entomb the well. To help in that effort, he said, engineers also were pumping some debris into the blowout preventer at the top of the well.
Update: The top kill effort failed. BP is now trying to capture the oil as it spills into the water with a funnel like device.
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May 30th, 2010 @ 1:23 am
It is about time something worked. I also think we (public) were/are mislead as to how much oil was being pumped out. Hopefully we can get to cleaning this mess up before to much more damage is caused to the ecosystem.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 5:01 am
I also think people were mislead as to how much oil was being pumped out..hopefully we can get to cleaning this mess up before to much more damage is caused to the ecosystem…
July 17th, 2014 @ 5:16 am
No doubt this is great news, the engineers tried but finally failed.Hope this is the last time the oil spill, will not happen in the later.