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he oil from the Gulf of Mexico still continued to pour yesterday as engineers worked to close tow of four vents on a capping device lowered onto the gushing riser pipe.
Admiral Thad W. Allen is the man in charge of the federal response to the oil spill who said that the other two vents remain open. While BP engineers were able to bring 6,000 barrels of oil to the surface in one day, they wouldn’t close the other vents due to a possibility that if the BP engineers close the vents too quickly, water would rush in and form the kind of icy hydrates that could make the capping a fail for the BP.
A technician also said they were working slowly and deliberately because the volume and velocity of the escaping oil could create a lot of friction on the inside walls of the new 5,000-foot pipe that could ruin the cap.
With the oil staining beaches and killing wildlife across the Gulf, and tar balls beginning to surface on the shores of the Florida Panhandle, President Obama said in his weekly radio address yesterday, “We are prepared for the worst, even as we hope that BP’s efforts bring better news than we’ve received before.”
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