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To: carranza2 who wrote (131143)	5/3/2010 7:18:50 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206093

Later reports say earlier reports of flow being cut were "inaccurate" (direct from BP CEO): nola.com Report that oil flow from Gulf well had been cut is inaccurate, BP says By Bob Warren, The Times-Picayune May 03, 2010, 3:26PM A BP spokesman this afternoon said reports that BP had been successful in cutting the flow of oil from a damaged well in the Guf of Mexico are inaccurate. If that news had been accurate, Doug Suttles, the company's CEO, said during a news conference in Robert, "you would see me doing cartwheels down the hall.'' A company official was quoted earlier Monday in a story on the Mobile Press Register website as saying the hydraulic shears, known as annular rams, had been shut and that the flow of oil had been reduced. The annular rams are part of the blowout preventer. "We've significantly cut the flow through the pipe," Jeff Childs, deputy incident commander for BP, said at a meeting in Mobile hosted by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, according to the Mobile Press Register. But Suttles said this afternoon that is not the case. Suttles said the company thinks the shears have been shut, but said the inaccurate part of Childs' statements were that it had cut the flow. Suttles did say that the company had made progress to stem the well, including completion of a of a 65-ton containment box that it plans to place over the largest of the three leaks on the ocean floor and the commencement of drilling one of two planned relief wells. The containment unit will hover over the main leak, Suttles said, and pump oil through a pipe to the Enterprise, a drill ship waiting on the surface. From there, the crude can be processed at seabefore being shipped to land. Two more dome-like structures are being built to contain the other two leaks, he said. Crews broke ground on the sea bed shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday as work began to drill a relief well. That work will take at least two months at best to complete, Suttles said.<<