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BP containing some oil being spilled in Gulf of Mexico

05/24/2010
By Paula Dittrick
BP PLC worked toward using a "top kill" to seal a deepwater blowout and stop an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico while workers also collected a growing share of the leaking oil.Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of BP Exploration & Production, expected BP could use a top kill technique, possibly starting May 23-24, to stop the flow.A final decision on using the top kill procedure has yet to be made, he said May 19, noting that BP continued to collect pressure readings and other information about the damaged blowout preventer.A top kill would involve pumping heavy fluids through 3-in. choke and kill lines on the existing BOP. A control pod from the BOP was retrieved and was...
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