BP Well Is DEAD -Hopefully!
BP, finished pumping cement into its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, yesterday (Thursday), to seal off the source, of the world’s worst offshore spill.
The cementing operation, took about five hours, and followed earlier injections, of heavy drilling mud this week. The procedure successfully, subdued the upward pressure of oil and gas, inside the deep-sea Macondo well. The crippled wellhead, as you may recall, was provisionally capped in mid-July, and successfully stopped, the flow of oil, gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
This is not the end of what is left to be done, but, more like the beginning of the end. It is at least, a positive step, to assure us that NO more oil, will be leaking into the environment.
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