BP's First Relief Well in Gulf May Be Completed Within 18 Days, Times Says (200 feet from gusher)

[jpak]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-28/bp-s-first-relief-well-in-gulf-may-be-completed-within-18-days-times-says.html

BP Plc may complete within two and a half weeks the first of two relief wells aimed at ending the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the London-based Times reported.

The relief well is within 200 horizontal feet of the ruptured one and is being guided toward it by means of electromagnetic and sonar ranging devices, the newspaper said.

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[tekisui]

1. It's good they are getting close, but it would be a rarity to hit the well pipe

on the first try. I hope the get lucky and this leak can finally get capped. It would be even better to do it before they have to stop intermittently between hurricanes.