(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-30 16:09 Obama aide says US oil spill could last until August 0
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-30 16:09 Obama aide says US oil spill could last until August
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – Oil could gush into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Plc rig until August and the U.S. government is “preparing for the worst,” Carol Browner, President Barack Obama’s top adviser on energy and climate change, said on Sunday. She spoke on the CBS TV show “Face The Nation.” (Reporting by Alan Elsner) Keywords: OIL RIG/AUGUST
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‘Top kill’ to last 24 more hours 0
‘Top kill’ to last 24 more hours
ROBERT (Louisiana) – BP’S ‘top kill’ to cap the Gulf of Mexico oil leak will last at least another 24 hours, a BP official said late on Thursday. ‘I should stress… that this operation continues,’ BP’s chief operating officer Doug Suttles told a press conference referring to a risky bid to try to cap the leak spewing from the Deepwater Horizon well.
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‘Relief wells’ are last resort for stopping oil spill 0
‘Relief wells’ are last resort for stopping oil spill
Some wonder: How will BP hit ‘something that’s 6 inches wide?’ A dramatic attempt to plug the runaway oil leak deep under the Gulf of Mexico with a powerful injection of heavy fluids into the top of a damaged well could take place early next week.
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Seafood testing from Gulf oil disaster could last years – USA Today 1
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Seafood testing from Gulf oil disaster could last years
USA Today By John Moore, Getty Images By Brian Winter, USA TODAY The danger posed by the Gulf oil spill to the US food supply is worse than previously thought, … BP Oil Spill: NOAA Shuts 19 Percent Of Gulf Coast Says CNN No end in sight for US oil disaster Twenty tar balls found on Key West beach; their origin's unknown |