Saturday, May 01, 2010

What's going on beneath the sea? A graphic explanation of the fight to shut off the oil leak | NOLA.com

A good visual of the problems in capping the leaking well in the Gulf.

 

What's going on beneath the sea? A graphic explanation of the fight to shut off the oil leak | NOLA.com

By Times-Picayune Staff
April 30, 2010, 7:42PM
Even as experts scramble to come up with a way of keeping the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well from continuing to flow freely into the Gulf of Mexico,
BP concedes that a relief well will eventually have to be drilled in order to successfully shut down the existing leaking well. The graphic below explains what's happening on the ocean floor, and how the relief well will work.

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