"Our anticipation is that it will be another seven to ten days to complete all of the preparations that we need to exercise this option and then at that point, we'll pump the kill mud and hopefully have this well killed, and well shut off, and the flow shut off."

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

It would permit Senate Democrats to kill the reconciliation bill on a point of order.

CNN: By Andrew Taylor, CQ Staff Writer

This pressure response has to be associated with the reservoir flowing hydrocarbons and again at this point kill operations should have been initiated by the BP engineers.

WSJ: The Oil Disaster Is About Human, Not System, Failure

We did the top kill -- we were able to force mud down the wellbore to the point where we actually suppressed all the oil.

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