According to online reports, BP’s latest attempt to cap a well gushing oil 5,000 feet under the surface of the ocean, is not producing the results that BP had hoped.
BP had hoped the cap would contain 90% of the oil. But the cap that was placed over jagged remnants of a pipe at the wellhead yesterday is only expected to funnel 1,000 barrels of oil a day to a ship on the surface. The government estimates that 19,000 barrels of oil per day continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil is still escaping around the cap due to a poor fit of a rubber seal at the bottom of the cap.
BP spent all of Thursday lowering the cap over a jagged pipe on the wellhead. The jagged edges of the pipe was caused by large shears which was used to cut the pipe after a saw got stuck in the pipe earlier this week.
This news does not sit well with environmentalists and company shareholders who are tired of BP’s excuses.
Today, pictures of sick birds covered with oil blanketed the front pages of most of the nation’s newspapers.
Here are just a few examples of today’s newspaper headlines:
