More than half of the oil leaking each day in the Gulf of Mexico is now being captured and the British Petroleum (BP) will restore the gulf to its original state, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward said Sunday.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Hayward said a containment cap on the broken well is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface, more than half of the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day.
He added that a further containment system will be implemented in this coming week and when those two are in place, "vast majority" of the oil could be contained.
"We're going to clean-up the oil, we're going to remediate any environmental damage and we are going to return the Gulf coast to the position it was in prior to this event," promised Hayward.
BP's latest containment effort involves a cap placed over the leak that gathers the oil, allowing it to be siphoned up via a pipe to a container ship.
The Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 20 after an explosion, killing 11 workers and causing the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Hayward said a containment cap on the broken well is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface, more than half of the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day.
He added that a further containment system will be implemented in this coming week and when those two are in place, "vast majority" of the oil could be contained.
"We're going to clean-up the oil, we're going to remediate any environmental damage and we are going to return the Gulf coast to the position it was in prior to this event," promised Hayward.
BP's latest containment effort involves a cap placed over the leak that gathers the oil, allowing it to be siphoned up via a pipe to a container ship.
The Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 20 after an explosion, killing 11 workers and causing the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Conference Notice: China ChemNet and Guangdong Oil &Gas Association will hold the 3rd Methanol-DME/LPG conference in Shanghai (details refered to: http://news.chemnet.com/list/zt/industry/erjiamiyingwen/index.html) on June 23-25. It will concentrate on the new way out for DME by entering gas community, methanol development direction on clean energy and the integration and mixture of LPG resource. welcome your attendance. Contact:0086-531-62311804 Brenda
