BP Resumes Work to Kill Damaged Well With Cement
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BP Plc returned to work on permanently plugging the source of the largest oil spill in U.S. history after a storm threat eliminated an opportunity to seal the Gulf of Mexico gusher more securely by the end of July.
The next effort, a so-called static kill that will pump mud and cement into the top of the Macondo well, will begin Aug. 2, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said today in a Washington press conference. Injections from the bottom to confirm the well is permanently closed could begin five days later, he said.