Oil spill from McClatchy

Long saga of blown-out BP well in Gulf is coming to an end

BP announced this morning that its engineers will soon begin pumping cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico through a relief well and will have completed sealing it by Saturday. That will kill for good a deep-sea well whose explosion 150 days ago killed 11 offshore drilling...

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OIL SPILL

BP well in Gulf killed with heavy mud in 8-hour operation

BP announced early Wednesday that a so-called "static kill" had succeeded in forcing the Deepwater Horizon well's oil back into rock formations 18,000 feet below the sea's surface. "The MC252 well appears to have reached a static condition," BP said in a news release, calling the well by the Mississippi...
OIL SPILL

Ships ready to leave BP leaky well as storm brews

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
OIL SPILL FROM MCCLATCHY

Investigators: BP ignored warnings, proceeded with Gulf well

BP knew its Macondo well was troublesome in the days leading up to a fatal April 20 blowout, congressional investigators found, but the company "appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure."
OIL SPILL FROM MCCLATCHY

BP could face massive fines under Clean Water Act

If the Obama administration is serious about holding BP and others responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it can start with the federal Clean Water Act, which could allow the federal government to collect as much as $4.7 billion in civil fines just for the oil that's spilled so far.
OIL SPILL

BP says efforts to connect mile-long pipe to cap oil is a success

Oil giant BP has succeeded in connecting a mile-long pipe to capture the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, a company spokesman said today.

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