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Posted: June 07 2010,1:44 pm |
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NEW ORLEANS -- As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from the spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC said Monday that it plans next month to replace the cap collecting the crude with a slightly bigger device.
The newer cap will "provide a better, tighter fit" than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press. But it will also allow the oil now being collected to again spew out into the Gulf during the changeover.
The oil began gushing after a BP oil rig explosion April 20 and recently increased in volume after officials sheared off the top of the damaged outflow pipe as part of the latest containment effort. BP believes the bigger cap will fit over more of the pipe than the current cap.
The current device is collecting about 466,200 gallons of oil per day, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil spill response, said earlier Monday at the White House. He also elaborated on comments made over the weekend that the spill cleanup would last into fall, acknowledging the full process would take much longer.
"Dealing with the oil spill on the surface will take a couple of months," he said Monday, but the process of getting oil out of marshlands and other habitats "will be years."
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7-02-2026 Three Word Post.....The Next Generation.... (Rep.#20,222) from: GoFastRacer
Before they set it on there that wide open 12 inch pipe was pumping out some crude. One thing for sure they know how till hit the honey pot with their drill 
 Hope they go BK 'cus we the taxpayers will be footin' the clean-up bill for many years to come... 
if they go BK, we will surely get stuck with the bill.
