Mild Success in Blocking Oil Leak

BP's senior executive vice-president Kent Wells has reported that the massive BP oil spill has been hopefully successfully blocked. The oil pipe that had the hole in it has apparently been plugged with a tool called a riser insertion tube, which closes off the majority of the oil leak. The tube is a five foot piece of pipe that blocks sea water from coming into the pipe. The oil leak has been leaking over 210,000 gallons of oil into the ocean a day for the past three weeks. The plug for now is only temporary, in the next ten days they hope to have a permanent solution to the problem. Overall, the oil issue is on its way to being solved, and hopefully not too late.

By: Katherine Conrad