BP’s Macondo Well Is Declared ‘Effectively Dead’ by Allen
By Mike Harrison -
2010-09-19T15:37:46Z
BP Plc’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is “effectively dead,” National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen said today.
“BP has successfully completed the relief well by intersecting and cementing the well nearly 18,000 feet below the surface,” Allen said in an e-mailed statement. “With this development, which has been confirmed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, we can finally announce that the Macondo 252 well is effectively dead.”
He added that the well “definitively” poses no continuing threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
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