Friday, BP officials said that they have had “some success” with the Top Kill procedure so far, but won’t know if it will continue to work until Sunday morning. The top kill procedure includes pumping a thick liquid into the oil leak and then applying cement and they hope that this will stop the oil leak. But BP has caution that this has never been tried at 5,000 feet in the ocean.
BP has been attempting to stop the largest oil spill in U.S. history, while up to 19,000 barrels of oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. BP's managing director, Robert Dudley said that, "It's like an arm-wrestling match of two equally strong forces," he said.
Friday, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said that if top kill fails, then they will attempt to place a custom-built cap called the "lower marine riser package" over the leak. He said that BP has several versions of the cap "waiting to go."
After that the next step would be to place a second blowout preventer on top of the first that they place down there a few weeks ago.
To see photos taken last weekend of the oil spill along the Louisiana coastline and the wildlife it has affected, click here.
A week ago, BP approved 6 machines from Kevin Costner that they will test that recycle water and separate the oil from the ocean. For more on that story, click here.
Earlier this week, a new video of the gushing oil had many of the investigative teams calling BP untrustworthy because more oil was leaking from the well then they originally claimed. For more on that story, click here.
The Provo, Utah company Ophir Minerals & Aggregate Group (OMAG) has a mineral they are calling "K'sorb" (calcium carbonate) that came from their Payson mine. The flour like material soaks up oil at about 8-10 times its own weight. OMAG shipped a few thousand pounds of its product to Halliburton for testing and it may be used to help absolve the oil in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an article in the Daily Herald Friday.
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Sources: CNN and the Daily Herald
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