Simplified, 墨西哥湾
墨 ("mo") 西 ("xi") 哥 ("ge") 灣 (gulf) It is the well that will not die.
BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted "top kill" of the well was abandoned late Saturday afternoon, leaving the huge Macondo field deep beneath the sea floor once again free to pump at least half a million gallons of crude a day into the gulf.
"I can say we tried. But what I can also say is this scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, or haven't succeeded in that so far," Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said in a late-day news conference.
"There's no silver bullet to stop this leak," Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said.
- As 'top kill' effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy, by Joel Achenbach and Alec MacGillis, The Washington Post
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