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Study Measures Size Of Gulf Oil Spill RedOrbit According to that press release, officials at Columbia University also noted that the Gulf oil spill "is now acknowledged as the largest marine oil accident …
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High waves to delay BPs measures to double oil capture
Waves as high as six feet may persist for most of this week off the Louisiana coast, forcing BP Plc to postpone already-delayed efforts to double the amount of oil being captured from a leaking Gulf of Mexico well. Read more on Express India
US Senator Jeff Bingaman discusses the fourth Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, as well as two significant pieces of legislation that would protect land within New Mexico.
Several different measures are being taken to clean up the oil spill, including the gathering of oil, spreading dispersants, using remotely operated vehicles, deploying booms for easier skimming oil and controlled burning, drilling a relief well and fitting 100-ton containment chamber over the leak.
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BP takes desperate measures as oil slick reaches US coast
ONE mile beneath the oil-stained waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a bent pipe and a stack of yellow valves and tubes continued yesterday to confound a multi-million-dollar salvage effort that has so far failed to contain a fast-spreading ecological disaster.
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