May 31, 2010
(image from the Greenpeace BP logo contest, via heulnicht.blogspot.com) BP has said that – if successful – the procedure will be able to get only a majority of the oil, not all of it, and the Obama administration said on Sunday that the amount of oil leaking from the ruptured well could increase as much as 20 per cent while efforts were made to cap it. BP engineers have said that a permanent solution to the leak, a relief well currently being drilled, will not be ready until August.

(image from the Greenpeace BP logo contest, via heulnicht.blogspot.com)

BP has said that – if successful – the procedure will be able to get only a majority of the oil, not all of it, and the Obama administration said on Sunday that the amount of oil leaking from the ruptured well could increase as much as 20 per cent while efforts were made to cap it.

BP engineers have said that a permanent solution to the leak, a relief well currently being drilled, will not be ready until August.