oil spill cleanup may 17 2010

On May 14, engineers began the process of positioning a tube at the largest oil leak site.^[86] Engineers attempted to insert a 6 inches (15 cm) wide tube into a jagged 21 inches (53 cm) pipe that is leaking oil onto the Gulf seabed. BP crews tried to insert the tube, which is surrounded by a rubber seal and attached to a tanker at the surface.^[86] The tube would be inserted into the larger of two leaks, the one releasing about 85 percent of the crude oil.^[86] A BP spokesman said it should be operational within the next several days.^[86] However, initial attempts to insert the pipe failed, and BP said it would try again the following day.^[93] After three days, BP reported the tube was working.^[94] On May 17, BP announced it was funneling approximately 1,000 barrels (42,000 US gallons; 160,000 litres) a day to a waiting tanker ship.<sup>[95]

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NEW ORLEANS — BP said Monday it was siphoning more than one-fifth of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, as worries escalated that the ooze may reach a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast. BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles said Monday on NBC's "Today" that a mile-long tube was funneling a little more than 1,000 barrels — 42,000 gallons — of crude a day from a blown well into a tanker ship. The company and the U.S. Coast Guard have estimated about 5,000 barrels — 210,000 gallons — have been spewing out each day. Engineers finally got the contraption working on Sunday after weeks of failed solutions — however, millions of gallons of oil are already in the Gulf of Mexico.

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FILE - This image from a video released by BP PLC shows oil and gas spewing from a yellowish, broken pipe 5,000 feet below the surface. The video released Wednesday May 12, 2010 gives a not-yet-seen glimpse of the leaking well a mile underwater. The stream occasionally can be seen becoming lighter as natural gas mixes into the gusher. BP was confident Saturday May 15, 2010 its latest experiment using a mile-long pipe and stopper would capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, even as the company disclosed yet another setback in the environmental disaster. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File) No Sales

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