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BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER Yahoo! News 07/15/2010
Gulf of Mexico storm threatens oil rigs

Oil companies began evacuating workers from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday ahead of what US forecasters said could be a powerful and dangerous storm.

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.

BP Installs Sealing Cap on Errant Well

SUSAN DAKER And CASSANDRA SWEET The Wall Street Journal 07/12/2010
BP Installs Sealing Cap on Errant Well

BP PLC said Monday night it had installed a new sealing cap that could halt the oil spewing from its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, raising the possibility that a nearly three-month long environmental crisis could soon be contained.

BP Optimistic on New Oil Cap; Containment Could Take 6 More Days, But Company Is Pleased With Progress

Oil giant BP PLC's work on the latest stage of its effort to contain the crude gushing from a leak in the Gulf of Mexico continued on schedule for a second day Sunday, with undersea robots preparing the installation of a new, tight-fitting containment cap on the broken well.

Gulf oil spill: Boat captain, despondent over spill, commits suicide

Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times 06/23/2010

Iran Offers to Rescue Obama from Oil Spill Mess

Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Arutz Sheva 06/22/2010
Gulf oil spill: Boat captain, despondent over spill, commits suicide

William Allen Kruse, 55, a charter boat captain recently hired by BP as a vessel of opportunity out of Gulf Shores, Ala., died Wednesday morning before 7:30 a.m. of a gunshot to the head, likely self-inflicted, authorities said.

Iran Offers to Rescue Obama from Oil Spill Mess

Iran has offered to help solve the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and extricate U.S. President Barack Obama from the mess that has caused his already sinking popularity to drop even further.

Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, US Official Says

JOSEPH BERGER, BRIAN KNOWLTON and HENRY FOUNTAIN The New York Times 06/07/2010
BP oil spill: leak found in rig weeks before blast

The Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded causing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, had suffered a leak in the weeks leading up to the blast, an employee has claimed.

Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, US Official Says

Although the Coast Guard had trained for the possibility of cleaning up a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done, the commander heading the federal response to the spill said Monday.

I can plug oil leak, says NY genius!

KIERAN CROWLEY and JEREMY OLSHAN New York Post 06/02/2010
I can plug oil leak, says NY genius!

BP's engineers can't stop the gushing oil spill, but a young genius from Long Island says she found the solution in less time than it takes most people to finish a crossword puzzle.

Gulf oil spill: Kevin Costner donates 'Ocean Therapy' invention to clean oil from sea; BP OK's tests

Could there be a happy Hollywood ending to the Gulf oil spill? Enter "Waterworld" star Kevin Costner, who has spent years and millions of dollars perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater.


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