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Update:
Ships & rigs securing BP's US Gulf blowout getting back to work
(7/25/2010 - OGI: Houston) Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled yesterday and National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen ordered the vessels and drilling rigs involved in the effort to shutdown BP's blown out Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico to return to the site and resume work immediately.
Allen said the precautions taken on Friday in advance of the storm have set back aspects of the effort to permanently kill the well, particularly the drilling of the relief wells, which he said may now take another week to ten days. He said, however, that the so-called "static kill" operation to pump cement and mud through the current containment cap that has stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf could begin in three to five days, with the first relief well completion in mid-August, barring any further storms.
According to Jane Lubchenco of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the choppy seas that Bonnie generated have broken up some of the oil slick and have left some beaches cleaner.
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