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BP to Start Permanent Plugging of Damaged Gulf Well This Week
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BP Plc plans this week to inject mud down its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico and begin permanently plugging the source of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
The process will start tonight or tomorrow, National Incident Commander Thad Allen told reporters Sunday on a conference call. Once mud injected into the well overpowers pressure coming up from the reservoir of oil and gas feeding Macondo, BP may use cement to plug the well from the top.