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Relief Well Completed; BP Readies 'Final Kill'

(Sept. 17) -- A relief well 18,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico's seabed has finally intersected BP's blown-out oil well, setting the stage for engineers to permanently seal the rupture by the end of the weekend. By Sunday, the fix could close out the final chapter in the five-month saga of the world's worst-ever...

BP Resumes 'Bottom Kill' to Seal Well by Weekend

(Sept. 14) -- BP's runaway oil well could be sealed off for good by the end of this week, after BP restarted drilling on a relief well that was halted for more than a month during the Gulf of Mexico's hurricane season. BP resumed drilling its relief well Monday for the first time since Aug. 10, when operations were...

Risk of Leak Remains as BP Prepares to Lift Well Cap

(Sept. 2) -- BP plans to carefully remove the cap from its crippled oil well today in preparation for a procedure it hopes will plug the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all. That procedure, known as "bottom kill," has been cited by the government as the only solution to stopping the oil for good. But the...

Why Is BP Delaying the Bottom Kill Operation Till September?

(Aug. 20) -- National Incident Commander Thad Allen said Thursday that BP's unruly well won't be killed once and for all until September. Original estimates had planned for the bottom kill -- which will kill the well for good -- to take place this month. At several points, emergency crews were even said to be ahead of...

Reports Sharply Contradict Claims About Vanished Oil

(Aug. 17) -- Two new reports from different groups of academic scientists are providing a counterweight to the government's rosy assertions that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis is drawing to a close. One says that as much as 79 percent of the oil is still loose in the gulf; the other expresses the fear that oil on the...