Engineers have confirmed that they had been able to stop the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico temporarily. Oil and gas gushing out of British Petroleum well has been a concern for authorities for the ecological damage it has threaten to do to the marine life and also loss of resources.
The ‘top-kill’ effort was launched on Wednesday afternoon under top-oil spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen and had been successful by Thursday morning. The government and industry engineers used the technique of pumping enough drilling fluid to block gas and oil disgorging from the well. However the officials made cautious statement referring that this is not the permanent solution to the problem.
Though the spill of oil and gas has temporarily stopped, but till early Thursday morning, neither BP officials nor government spokesman have confirmed this effort as successful operation. However Allen seems to be optimistic and said that one ship that was pumping fluid into the well ran out of fluid and the second ship is on its way. He got encouraged by the process and said that they would soon get the situation under control.
Allen also mentioned about an interagency team that would work to find out an estimate of how much oil got spilled into the gulf. The Coast Guard had estimated that nearly 5,000 barrels of oil got spilled a day, but the independent agencies are estimating that the figure could be much higher than 5,000 barrel a day.
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