«This is important work,» he says, «but the great bulk of the problem is elsewhere, downstream in the natural gas system», including poorly
capped oil and gas wells no longer in production.
July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed
well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its
well cap if reports of
oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.
The
capping of the
well has been conducted cautiously, with days of tests, just in case the walls of the
well, which extends some three miles from the seabed down to the
oil and gas reservoir, were damaged.
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