Posts Tagged ‘relief’
Feds: Relief drilling needed to kill BP’s well (AP)
AP – BP’s blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet plugged for good, and work on what’s been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the federal government said Friday.
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Federal government: Relief well must go forward (AP)
AP – The federal government says work must go forward on a relief well meant to permanently plug BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf relief well crews watch for tropical weather (AP)
AP – Crews finishing work meant to forever stop oil from leaking from a blown-out undersea well into the Gulf may have one more hurdle to overcome: the weather.
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Gulf relief well down to final, tricky 100 feet (AP)
AP – The relief well being drilled to ensure crude never again spills into the ocean from BP’s paralyzed well in the Gulf of Mexico has been dubbed the ultimate solution to the drama that’s unfolded over the past three months.
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Final plug targeted as BP resumes relief well work (AP)
AP – BP crews were drilling cautiously Monday to finish a relief well designed to shoot a permanent plug into the oil gusher that polluted the Gulf of Mexico for more than 12 weeks.
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BP plans to continue relief well work this week (AP)
AP – The oil that poured into the Gulf for more than 12 weeks has been forced back underground and BP engineers expect to spend this week drilling the final leg of a relief well to complete the “bottom kill” designed to permanently seal the leaking well.
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US Army begins relief missions in Pakistan (AP)
AP – U.S. army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid.
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