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BP Successfully Inserts Tube Into Leak Site !!

BP Successfully Inserts Tube Into Leak Site !!
May 16th 2010 Oil Spill Update
(CNN) -- Oil company BP says it has resumed pumping oil to a ship on the surface after a weekend setback that halted efforts to siphon off the crude spewing from a damaged well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Crews re-inserted the tube into the well's riser stack Sunday. The 4-inch pipe is now connected to a ship on the surface, 5,000 feet above the sea floor, and is pumping oil back to the surface, BP spokesman Mark Proegler told CNN.
If successful, the technique will capture most of the oil that is pouring out of the well. The well has been spewing an estimated 210,000 gallons, or 5,000 barrels, of light sweet crude a day into the Gulf since the sinking of the drill platform Deepwater Horizon in late April.
"In terms of containing the flow, this was a positive step forward," said Kent Wells, a senior vice president for BP.
Wells said that crews were operating the tool cautiously as they make adjustments to achieve an optimal flow rate up to the drill ship.
"We'll look over the next day or ... more

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