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07-15-2010, 03:40 PM
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Leak stopped
[IMG]http://media.wwltv.com/images/339*264/71010+spill1.jpg[/IMG] Credit: AP In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC, the arm of a remotely operated vehicle works at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, Saturday, July 10, 2010. Undersea robots manipulated by engineers a mile above were expected to begin work Saturday removing the containment cap over the gushing well head in the Gulf of Mexico to replace it with a tighter-fitting cap that could funnel all the oil to tankers at the surface. If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the tankers could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday. But it would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe unleashed by a drilling rig explosion. It won't plug the busted well and it remains uncertain that it will succeed. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES by Colleen Long and Harry Weber / Associated Press wwltv.com Posted on July 15, 2010 at 6:33 AM Updated today at 3:00 PM Related: Gallery See all 3 photos » NEW ORLEANS - BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. The announcement Thursday came after company officials said all valves had been shut on a new cap over the busted well in an experiment to stop the spill. Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT. It was a long-awaited milestone in one of the nation's worst environmental disasters. While not a permanent solution to plug the busted well, the success in capturing the oil spewing out was welcome news. The crisis began when BP's deepwater rig exploded, killing 11 workers. The cap is not a permanent fix. BP is drilling two relief wells so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well in hopes of plugging it for good. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) 
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