Oil giant BP has announced yet another plan to contain the oil gushing out of its well in the Gulf of Mexico, a day after its "top kill" manoeuvre to plug the leak failed.
Bob Dudley, BP's managing director, told NBC news on Sunday that the plan was designed to capture most of the oil on the sea floor and channel it to the surface for collection.
"I think engineering on this is simpler than the top kill ... It will be a four to seven day operation," Dudley said.
However, BP warned that the success of the new procedure, which will try to fit a containment cap over the leaking well, was not guaranteed.
Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer, reporting from the town of Empire in Louisiana, said the next effort would likely start on Monday or Tuesday.
It would involve cutting out the well head and moving a multi-tonne devise called a blow out preventer, and then having a drill ship send down a long-pipe with a nozzle that would suck up the oil coming out, our correspondent explained.
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