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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles BP Mulling Actions After Oil Collection Dome Clogs Email Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! ShareThis May 8, 2010 8:48 p.m. EST Topics: oil and gas - upstream activities, environmental cleanup, disaster and accident, environmental issue, economy, business and finance, energy and resource, industrial accident, United States Melvin Baker - News Room Administrators Reporter New Orleans, LA, United States (NewsBahn) - Engineers with British Petroleum were pondering their next step Saturday after a concrete dome lowered over a Gulf of Mexico drill site with the hope of funneling away oil leaking into the water instead failed, clogging when the inside of the structure became coated with crystals. The four-story dome had been lowered into the water Friday night at the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, which has gushed 210,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf waters every day since the explosion and fire that left 11 oil workers missing. However, gas from the spill mixed with water to form ice-like crystals called hydrates that filled up the dome, making it buoyant and preventing oil from flowing out the top of the dome and into pipes that will take the oil to the surface and into storage ships. The dome has been been moved and is now about 200 yards away from the leak. BP chief operations officer Doug Suttles outlined to the media two potential options. One would be to heat the dome or to add methanol to dissolve the crystals. The other would be to pump ground-up material into the blow-out preventer with the intent of clogging it up, much like stopping up a toilet. The blow-out preventer weighs 480 tons and is nearly 50 feet tall. It is designed to stop the flow of oil in the event of an accident, but it failed at the time of the explosion. In the meantime, between 10,000 and 13,000 barrels of oil have been eliminated through controlled burns, according to Al Allen, an expert hired to burn off the oil spill that has threatened wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of residents along the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Saturday afternoon proposed using as many as 10 dredges to build up barrier islands to block the oil from getting into wetlands. The plan, which would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, would fill in gaps between islands east of the Mississippi River and Breton Sound, and add to barrier islands to shield the Barataria Basin west of the river. Copyright © 2003 - 2010 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. Most Popular Stories Somali Pirates Seize German-Owned Chemical Tanker Matt Mitrione Stops Kimbo Slice In UFC 113 UFC Cuts Kimbo Slice and Paul Daley After UFC 113 David Boreanaz’s Wife To Stand By Her Man, Despite Cheating Allegations Jokes About Miami Airport Worker's Body Scan Lead To Beating, Arrest Brad Pitt Calls Ex-Wife Jennifer Aniston “Pathetic” Gwyneth Paltrow Clears Up Brad Pitt Trivia Question On “The Marriage Ref” The Duggar Family Considering Adding To Their Clan Ellen DeGeneres Apologizes On-Air To Apple For iPhone Spoof Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett Unsuccessfully Tries To Block Sex Tape Release Recent Posts Most Popular Comments Recent Comments Popular Threads Home | U.S. | World | Entertainment | Sports | Business | Health | Sci / Tech | Politics | Weird / Offbeat Follow AHN on Twitter AHN Social News connects you with friends and the news Client Login | Submit News | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Contact | Content Services © 2010 AHN All Rights Reserved

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