HOUSTON – Updates cement pumps started. BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N), said Friday that his ruptured the Gulf of Mexico well that caused the worst oil disaster at sea will be permanently closed on Saturday.
The oil company and relief sections of the blown-out Macondo well on Thursday and on Friday afternoon began pumping cement in BP, which will result in the “bottom kill the well.
“The pumping process is expected a few hours,” BP spokesman Daren Beaudo told. After the cement cures, the company expects the well to completely closed, he said.
Pumping began at 1:30 pm CDT (1830 GMT), Beaudo said.
After that the lights will be plugged and abandoned well, BP said earlier on Friday.
BP closed off all oil flow with a cap on the wellhead on July 15. Before then, well over 4 million barrels of oil spit in the ocean, coastal damage along the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing wild animals, hurting the livelihood of fishermen and others.
The good break on April 20 triggered an explosion and fire at Trans Ocean Ltd. (RIG.N) rig Deepwater Horizon that workers slain in 1911 and sank off the coast of Louisiana.
source:reuters
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