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BP Disaster, News

BP ‘Static Kill’ May Have Worked

Rick Outzen August 13, 2010

The AP reports that BP is currently doing tests to see if it has successfully plugged its broken well with last month’s “Static Kill” operation. If mud from that operation filled the hole, it may not have to implement the “Bottom Kill,” which had been planned as the final fix to the problem.

Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”