Tube to Start Siphoning Oil
BP PLC expected a mile-long tube to start siphoning oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday night May 15th) after a setback. If successful, the deepsea experiment would reduce but not end a spill that's spewed millions of gallons of crude.
Technicians have been working since early Friday to insert the tube into an oil pipe a mile beneath the surface using robotic submarines. The tube is intended to suck oil up like a straw to a tanker on the surface, while a stopper surrounding it would keep crude from leaking into the sea. Even if it works, a smaller leak that has been estimated to be contributing one-fifth of the spill would remain.
On Friday night, the company pulled the insertion tube back to the surface to readjust its connection to a tanker intended to collect oil at the surface, said Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer. The company was working again to insert it and expects to be pumping at least some of the oil to the surface by Saturday night.
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