BP reports static kill appears to be working on Macondo well

The Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have reached a condition in which the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud is offsetting the reservoir pressure, which is the desired outcome of the static kill procedure that started Aug. 3.

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