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BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Efforts Continue to be Hampered by Weather
The ship, Helix Producer, has been trying for several days to link to BP's ruptured oil well. Unfortunately, the Gulf of Mexico weather is not cooperating and is hampering oil spill containment and clean-up efforts.
The BP well continues to contribute between 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily to the already gargantuan oil spill. If the Helix Producer can hook up to the well, it could siphon up to 53,000 of those barrels each day. That would make a significant difference to the amount of oil contributing to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. See CNN video below.
Even though the sea is rough, oil spill clean-up workers have still managed to partially link the BP well with the Helix Producer. However, they cannot proceed to complete the link until the weather eases a bit. Officials at Louisiana’s oil spill clean-up command center believe the ship-to-well link may still be completed by Saturday.
Rough weather is also affecting the placement of a new, more efficient containment cap on the BP well. The new containment cap would permit an increase in oil capture from 26,000 barrels a day, to 80,000 barrels a day. Combined with the Helix Producer operation, this would be an effective beginning to controlling the BP oil spill.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- BP Resumes Work on Relief Well
- Reclaimed BP Oil in Your Fuel Tank?
- Possible Storm May Worsen Gulf Oil Spill Situation
- Gulf Oil Spill Containment Dome a Bust – Now What?
- Louisiana Shrimp Season Opens Amid Oil Spill Health Concerns
- BP moves forward on Containment Dome to Stop Oil Leak
- BP Containment Cap Integrity Tests Delayed
- BP Within Days of Well Kill; Makes First Deposits Into Claims Fund
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Disaster Worsens
- BP Relief Well Within Days of Completion
- Oil Spill Partners in Crime – BP, Transocean, and Halliburton
- BP Oil Spill Tar Balls Reach Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain
- BP Bottom-Kill Procedure May Not Be Necessary
- Oil Spill Reaches Wildlife Refuges as BP Attempts to Lower Containment Dome
- BP Oil Spill – “Land Hanging On By Its Fingernails”
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