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Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on May 27, 2010 at 2:31

LA Times Story

"Reporting from Houma, La.Engineers have succeeded in stopping 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, has pumped enough drilling fluid to block all oil and gas from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well is very low, but persists, he said.

Once engineers have reduced the well pressure to zero, they will begin to pump cement into the hole to entomb the well. To help that effort, he said, engineers are also pumping some debris into the blowout preventer at the top of the well."

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Permalink Reply by S.H.M. on May 27, 2010 at 3:04

Fingers crossed. Saying prayers for success. Seems top kill might have been the way to go from the onset.

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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on May 27, 2010 at 22:52

Does anyone know what this piece of equipment is that they're showing the mud/oil/whatever spewing out of?

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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on May 30, 2010 at 0:00

Well, the top kill failed.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/30/gulf.oil.spill.developments/

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 1, 2010 at 3:20

time to update the heading....

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