In the meantime, some of the leaking oil is being piped to the surface from a cap over part of the well.
Earlier BP expressed confidence that a new cap placed over the ruptured well in the Gulf would capture most of the leaking oil.
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In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90% of the oil leaking out of the well.
And in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well.
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Former BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix was arrested last April on charges of obstructing justice related to information that he had collected, and allegedly deleted, during his role of trying to stop oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP oil spill.
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If all goes according to plan, 85% of the oil leaking from the Macondo prospect could be captured by Sunday.
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, owned by Transocean and operated by BP, cost the lives of 11 men and caused the leaking of about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the waters of the Gulf.
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The first part of the operation to stop the Shell pipeline leaking oil into the North Sea has, according to the company, been successful so far.
By comparison, the BP Macondo deep water spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year saw 30, 000 barrels of oil a day leaking into the gulf.
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As I mentioned last night, my administration has directed BP to mobilize additional equipment and technology, and in the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil that is leaking out of the well.
Meanwhile, there are worries that the now submerged rig is leaking large volumes of oil into the Gulf.
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Results of a computer simulation released Thursday show oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico could reach up the Altantic coast and far out into the ocean by early summer.
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Over the weekend BP successfully mounted a pipe to siphon some of the oil and gas from the leaking wild well.
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The stock moved lower after the Environmental Protection Agency warned the energy firm it must stop the flow of oil from its leaking pipeline outside of Chicago by noon on Monday.
Obviously weather has, over the past several days, complicated our efforts to introduce additional containment vessels -- the Helix is a device that was -- its date has been pushed back in terms of additional containment capacity, as the Enterprise and the Q4000 continue to average above 20, 000 barrels of oil a day accumulating in from the leaking well.
Three credit-rating firms have also downgraded the debt of BP, which made progress over the weekend siphoning oil from the leaking well.
PLC's failure to plug the mile-deep well that has been leaking oil since April is sending shudders down the spines of industry leaders who previously considered offshore exploration to be one of the last lucrative frontiers in the domestic oil business.
The company said that on Friday it had collected 6, 077 barrels of oil after placing a containment cap over the leaking, mile-deep well.
That could be a lot of money, as Louisiana has vast swaths of wetlands, owns the oyster beds that were devastated by leaking oil, and has lost oil and gas royalties due to the drilling moratorium.
We have a well that is leaking some amount of oil 5, 000 feet below the surface.
Days later, we learned that not only was oil still leaking, but that the rate of flow was more like 5, 000 barrels per day.
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Oil continued flowing at the rate of about 5, 000 barrels per day into the Gulf of Mexico on May 3, following the April 20 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig south of the Mississippi Delta that caused it to sink and left its well leaking oil.
Initial reports said oil was leaking into the Gulf at a rate of 1, 000 barrels per day.
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VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) Barges transporting commerce idled among the nearly four dozen vessels stacked up Tuesday along a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River, denied transit as crews feverishly sought to clean up leaking oil spilled in a weekend barge accident.
Before the explosion, the rig carried 2.6m litres of diesel fuel and was pumping 8, 000 barrels (1.27m litres) of crude oil a day - a volume which may still be leaking from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.
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The rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, killing 11 workers and leaking four million barrels of oil.
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Turning to the SNP, Mr Rennie said the Scottish government's plan to win independence in the 2014 referendum had been dealt a blow following the leaking of a cabinet document which warned of cost pressures on public spending and volatility in oil revenue.
Mr Clayton said there were concerns about possible environmental damage if oil started leaking from the vessel, but there have been no reports of any leaks.
The oil that is still leaking from the well could seriously damage the economy and the environment of our Gulf states and it could extend for a long time.
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Meanwhile, the oil is leaking out, in the same messy way it was sucked up through hundreds of backyard wells in Oklahoma City in 1931 before the troops marched in.
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