GUARDIAN– The gush of oil from BP’s spewing well in the Gulf of Mexico was stopped for the first time in three months yesterday, raising hopes that it could be sealed off for good. The Obama administration immediately warned that a cap sealing off the well might only be a temporary fix.
“We’re encouraged by this development, but this isn’t over,” said Thad Allen, the US Coast Guard commander.
But for the first time in 87 days, it appeared last night that BP had control over the well. The company said it would have to monitor the cap holding back the oil in a series of pressure tests every six hours for the next 48 hours, before it could be certain the well would hold.
It also cautioned that the final solution remained a relief well, still some weeks away. “I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” Kent Wells, a senior vice-president for BP, said in a conference call. “But we just started the test and I don’t want to create a false sense of excitement.”
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