BP jams gulf well with drilling mud
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 00:21
in Earth & Climate
Officials aren't ready to declare the well dead but say that stopping the upward thrust of oil and gas is a 'very significant step.' BP's long and halting effort to bring an end to the Gulf of Mexico disaster crossed a key threshold Wednesday when the company packed its ruptured well full of heavy drilling mud, wresting control more than three months after...