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New 'Cap' May Stop Most Oil Leaking into Gulf

   VOA News 09 July 2010
   Ships and drilling rigs work at the site of the Deepwater Horizion oil
   spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 03 Jul 2010

Photo: AP

   Ships and drilling rigs work at the site of the Deepwater Horizion oil
   spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 03 Jul 2010

   Officials  overseeing  the  response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil
   spill say they may be able to install a new, more effective cap on the
   leaking well by Monday.

   [Doug Rader with the Environmental Defense Fund discusses the current
                          situation in the Gulf:]

   The U.S. official in charge of the oil spill response said oil company
   BP  will begin work Saturday on replacing a loose-fitting "containment
   cap" on the sea floor with a new cap to be bolted in place.
   Retired  Coast  Guard Admiral Thad Allen said this should capture most
   of  the tens of thousands of barrels of oil pouring out of the damaged
   well.
   After  the  old cap is removed and until the new one is installed, oil
   will gush out of the well at full volume.
   The worst spill in U.S. history has released as much as 60,000 barrels
   of  oil  per  day  into  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  since  April 20 when a
   drilling-rig explosion killed 11 workers.

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   Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.

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