BP Begins To Fit New Cap On Gulf Of Mexico Oil Leak
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 7,
July 2010
BP also said there was no guarantee of success at such a depth.
A fleet of 400 skimmers is in place to try to minimise the effects of increased oil loss.
The company has two other operations ongoing. One will deploy a larger surface vessel to collect oil, the other is drilling two wells to intercept the leak, which it is hoped will provide a permanent solution.
The larger ship, Helix Producer, could be in place to collect leaking oil as early as Sunday.
BP says the first of the relief wells will be finished in the first half of August.
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April killed 11 people. President Barack Obama has called the leak the biggest environmental disaster in US history. Read the full report here.
Source: BBC News, UK
