Breaking: Top Kill fails to stop BP oil disaster

Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to "move on to the next option."

Here's what next, via CNN:

That option: Place a custom-built cap known as the "lower marine riser package" over the leak, BP chief operation officer Doug Suttles said. BP crews were already at work Saturday to ready the materials for that...

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Published on May 29, 2010 16:47
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