BP for Gulf oil well "cap" leakage to collect all the crude oil leak

BP 12, said that the engineers successfully new oil control cover "big hat 10" set above the well-head oil leak, leak designed to collect all crudes.

Big hat 10, installation complete

British Petroleum (BP) 12, issued a statement through the e-mail said that local time 19: 00 pm (Beijing time 13, 8 p.m.), "new oil control cover installation complete".

New oil control cover a number of valve, can cover located on the sea following 1.6 km leakage point and crude oil suction to sea vessels.

British Petroleum COO Doug · Sartre Mills told AFP reporter, "big hat," to prevent oil spills in the high pressure and low temperature crystallization of capabilities to ensure smooth transportation on oil spill response to sea vessels.

British Petroleum leases drilling platform "deep horizon" 20 April 22-explosion, into the bottom of the wells in the Gulf, which began to leak oil. British Petroleum has placed two oil-control cover. First Crystal led by oil leakage leaking oil cannot lose to sea vessels, second only to collect some oil spills.

British Petroleum has previously said that the "big hat," gathers all oil spills, full containment leakage of floating.

United States scientists estimate that this stage every day about 3.5 million barrels to 6 million barrels of crude oil leaks from oil wells.

New control leakage system expands test

United States Gulf oil spill disaster relief Commander Assad · Alan in a statement that the work stoppage was "significant progress". Allen said that oil-control cover placed after 6 hour to 48 hours, British Petroleum will start in the new control system leakage tests.

Since 13, British Petroleum engineers began to close down "big hat," valve, gradually increasing pressure within the device to determine the well-head can withstand valve turned off after enormous pressure. If the wellhead valve cannot be confined to only partially closed, allowing a small number of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.

British Petroleum, Chief Operating Officer of Sartre Mills told AFP journalists, engineers at this stage to begin the read head pressure sensors.

"The best is the pressure rise to our estimate value," said Jean-Paul Sartre, "such Mills, we can get the ' close ' oil wells. "If the pressure value is lower than expected at the wellhead, description of oil leakage there another oil leaking oil.

He said: "we need a full block of cement it to no longer have the oil floats Shanghai noodles".

Ching leakage expenditures up to 35 billion

At this stage, the Gulf of Mexico oil had drifted to the surrounding all 5 counties, fisheries, coastal areas and economic threats.

AFP, British Petroleum, the sealing of positive signals cannot cover up the oil spill to the coastal areas.

The latest statistics, 210 million barrels to 410 million barrels of crude oil has flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.

BP 12, said that the company to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil leakage current expenditure has risen to 35 billion dollars.

BP day in a press release that the company received a claim as 10.5 million, of which over 5.2 million have been paid, the amount of $ 1.65 billion.