Over the years, the group has made stoves using mud,bricks,sheet metal,clay, ceramics and old oil drums.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The first trap shows no signs of oil, only mud stirred up by recent storms.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

There had already been a several week delay during which MMR was trying to mechanically grind away solidified barite, an ingredient in the oil based mud that was used to contain the well when it repeatedly tried to flow before it was supposed to.

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Right now, the company says, it has removed that mud from the hole, but it believes that barite from the oil-based mud has blocked the flow.

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But the deadline for the seabed cleanup cannot be met following an additional discovery of oil-soaked mud last week.

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