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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The cap over Spill is capturing oil!!!!!

Forty-nine days later, the Gulf of Mexico got a bit of good news.

Yesterday, U.S. officials said that a "cap" installed over a leaking oil pipe was capturing more than 460,000 gallons (or 11,000 barrels) of oil per day. Instead of spilling into the Gulf, the oil was being funneled up through pipe to a ship on the surface.
The spill isn't over: Large amounts of oil - nobody knows how much - still billow out of vents in the cap. But for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, humans seemed to be partly in control of the leaking BP well, instead of the other way around.
"We only define success as when we actually get the oil plugged ... and we return people's lives back to normal," said Kent Wells, a senior vice president at BP. "But this is an encouraging step."
On the same day, there were signs of how much trouble remains.

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