ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- It's never been tried before, but crews hope to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to cut off most of the hundreds of thousands ...
Thu, 06 May 2010 10:00:31 GMT — ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) " Crews prepared Thursday to lower a 100-ton box they hoped would cut off most of the crude spewing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of ...
A 20-foot pleasure boat that invaded the strict perimeter Thursday and pulled up right in the middle of the oil spill near the boat drilling the relief well was told to leave the area by a Coast Guard ...
Fri, 07 May 2010 21:43:08 GMT — ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) " It was part engineering marvel, part video game challenge Friday as crews painstakingly worked to lower a box the size of a house over the ...
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Political patience is washing away for BP executives who can't stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews lowered a ...
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crews planned Sunday to park the giant oil containment box on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and offload equipment that could be used in a new attempt to stem the flow of ...
A 12-man crew aboard a supply boat was carrying the precious cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, also was involved in helping fight the fire that resulted from the oil ...
A second, smaller container has reached the seafloor, but it hasn't yet been placed over the blown out well that's spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a BP official said. BP ...
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Icelike crystals encrusting a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box meant to contain oil gushing from a broken well deep in the Gulf of Mexico forced ...
Efforts on Wednesday to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill centered on a towering metal box the size of a four-story building that engineering teams hope will corral the crude that continues to ...
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most ...
The containment box has a dome-like structure at the top that's designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. First, crews need to ...
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