BP: Oil Leak Could Be Stopped By Next Week

A BP official says a gusher of oil pouring from its damaged Gulf of Mexico well could be shut off as early as next week.

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Scientists Accuse Obama Over Oil Spill

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Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope.

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BP Makes "Giant" Oil Find in Gulf of Mexico

From Yahoo Finance
By Tom Bergin

Oil major BP Plc said it has made an oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, which analysts believe could contain over 1 billion barrels of recoverable reserves, reaffirming the Gulf's strategic importance to the industry.

BP said in a statement on Wednesday that it had made the "giant" find at its Tiber Prospect in the Keathley Canyon block 102, by drilling one of the deepest wells ever sunk by the industry.

Further appraisal will be required to ascertain the size of volumes of oil present, but a spokesman said the find should be bigger than its Kaskida discovery which has over 3 billion barrels of oil in place.

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