Fitting New Cap Lifts Hope of Ending Oil Spill Disaster
Western Daily Press › July 14, 2010
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BP robots have attached a new, tighter-fitting cap on top of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak, raising hopes that the flow of crude polluting the water can be stopped for the first time in nearly three months.
Placing the cap on top of the leak was the climax of two days of delicate preparation work and a day of slowly lowering it into position one mile (1.6km) below the sea.See the full content of this document
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Fitting New Cap Lifts Hope of Ending Oil Spill Disaster
The capping project - akin to building an underwater Lego tower - is a temporary fix, but the oil giant's best hope for containing the spill.
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