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APNewsBreak: Crews resume drilling relief well

Wed Sep 8, 2010 3:15 AM EDT
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Harry R. Weber, Associated Press
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<p>FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. Before the key piece of evidence has even been analyzed, oil giant BP PLC on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, planned to release the conclusions of its internal investigation into the rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)</p>

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning. Before the key piece of evidence has even been analyzed, oil giant BP PLC on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, planned to release the conclusions of its internal investigation into the rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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HOUMA — A chief drilling official says BP crews have resumed drilling a relief well meant to allow them to permanently seal the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

John Wright, who is in charge of the operation aboard the Development Driller III vessel, said in an e-mail Monday to The Associated Press that drilling has resumed.

BP and the government have said it would take about four days from the time crews started drilling again to intersect the blown-out well. Once the relief well intersects the blown-out well, crews will pump in mud and cement to permanently seal the well.

The flow of crude was first stopped with a cap in mid-July.

The April 20 rig explosion killed 11 workers and led to 206 million gallons of oil spewing from BP's undersea well.

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theforce5

Of course Transocean the owner of the rig and the driller of the well, Halliburton ,The Administration as always blame without thinking,

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    Reply#1 - Wed Sep 8, 2010 9:40 AM EDT
    Peter J Pilkington

    The time has come to not only hold those in industry financially responsible but also criminally along with those within MMS and let's not forget the USCG that allowed the conditions to exist but profited by looking the other way. We have entrusted certain persons within our Government with regulations that were knowingly ignored, perhaps the time has come to send a message with more than just fines but serious time at the gray bar hotel. let's remember that the Gulf of Mexico spill not only spoiled beaches and sea turtles it also KILLED 11 men. So exactly who is being charged? As the Father of a man killed on an offshore oil rig 15 years ago where no one was ever charged, I would like to know what has changed? What are we prepaired to do to keep this from happening again?

      Reply#2 - Thu Sep 9, 2010 1:07 AM EDT
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