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The spill. in the entire gulf of mexico we're told they have more than 570 skimmers, a record number. at the spill site itself, 46 skimmers. in addition to these skimmers, they have a large ship in the area call the helix producer that is capable of recovering 25,000 barrels of oil a day. that is in addition to the work that the skimmers are doing. just yesterday the skimmers were able to recover approximately 25,000 barrels themselves. so far the procedure to place that tighter fitting cap appears to be moving along as planned. according to the coast guard incoming coordinator on the. >> two ...

The testing period with apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico and the pressure readings under the new tight fitting cap steadily rising. they have not seen or detected any new oil over this integrity test via a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the surface. the data indicates the well's integrity appears to be sound. instead of leaving it corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan remains to open the riser to kill and choke lines for the large collection ships on the surface. as ...

Waiting until august or beyond. but the tests today certainly will give us some new answers, and potentially new hope. we may know today if a tighter fitting cap is able to contain all the gushing oil in the gulf of mexico. this morning, engineers will begin running those tests on the lid that was installed yesterday after three days of preparing the site and slowly lowering it into place. if the process goes according to plan, it would be the first time in nearly three months that bp is able to keep all the spewing oil from polluting the gulf coast. so, this is something that we'll be watchin...

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