Tuesday Before Engineers Shoot Mud Into a Well

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ROBERT, La. (AP) - BP now says it will likely be at least
Tuesday before engineers can shoot heavy mud into a blown-out well
spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Three ultra-deepwater rigs and other equipment are at the site
where the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20. They're
preparing for a delicate procedure called a "top kill" that BP
hopes will stop the flow of oil from the well.
Crews will pump in heavy drilling mud, which is a thick, viscous
fluid that's twice the density of water. That should stop the oil,
and then they'll use cement to keep more from gushing out.
BP's Doug Suttles says this hasn't been tried at 5,000 feet
underwater before, so engineers want to make sure everything is
just right.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are altering their estimates of how much oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico a day after new live video of the leak was posted online. Tim Crone of Columbia University says he was saddened because he hoped the video ...

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GRAND ISLE — Frustration is growing among coastal officials who say the federal government should take a stronger role in fighting the massive oil spill that is threatening the state's wetlands and recreation on this barrier island resort community ...

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No matter what, it already is way too much oil for the delicate parts of the Gulf ecosystem, said Darryl Felder, a biologist at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. "A lot of this is diffused now in deep layers," said Felder, who is coordinating a ...

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Other Acadiana residents with ties to Grand Isle in Southeast Louisiana got bad news Friday. Beaches at the popular weekend get-away spot were closed Friday as oil rolled ashore. (2 of 2) That doesn't mean visitors can't spend the weekend at their ...

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... home to Louisiana to cover the great spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was a slow-motion disaster, though, so most of my stories were about people waiting and worrying about oil contaminating the spectacular fisheries of what we call Acadiana.

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