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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap BP cautious on new oil cap bid AFP - Thursday, May 27 Send IM Story Print Interactive graphic on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as BP denies botching the month-long clean-up and deliberately hiding the true extent of the spill. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - – BP downplayed hopes for a bid Wednesday to cap an oil spill described as the worst in US history, as a probe showed multiple warning signs preceded a rig blast that started the leak. President Barack Obama piled pressure on the British oil giant ahead of the attempt to seal a ruptured pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, announcing that he would make a second trip to the region since the crisis started a month ago. BP had previously talked up the "top kill" procedure, which involves smothering the leak with heavy drilling fluid then sealing it with concrete, but it later warned that the technique had never been tried at such depth. "If it was on land we would have a very high confidence of success, but... we need to be realistic about the issues around operating in a mile of water," BP CEO Tony Hayward said. "We rate the probability of the success somewhere between 60 percent and 70 percent," he said. Locals and officials are desperate to see the company stop the spill, which has washed up on beaches and clogged fragile marshlands, with hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day speweing from the pipeline. Carol Browner, the top White House advisor on energy and environmental matters, said it was the worst spill in US history. "I don't think there's any doubt, unfortunately," she told ABC News. Fresh details of backstage anger at the White House emerged Tuesday as the impact of the spill became known last month, with famously calm Obama venting his frustration. "Plug the damn hole," Obama told aides in the week after the spill began, the Washington Post reported. US Energy Secretary Steven Chu was monitoring preparations for the new bid and told Obama in a phone briefing that BP was conducting "crucial diagnostic pressure tests" before proceeding, a White House statement said. The process was slated to begin early Wednesday, but BP senior vice president Kent Wells said the tests "could take 12-24 hours." "When the actual kill might go forward, the earliest might be tomorrow and that could extend on from there," Wells said. Even as they kept their fingers crossed that the plan would succeed, officials were readying backup options. But some, including the drilling of relief wells to divert the flow and allow the original well to be capped, could take several months to be realized. At the moment, if the "top kill" cannot proceed, BP plans to lower a containment dome over the leak, sealing it in place to prevent the formation of crystals caused by cold sea water mixing with natural gas. Such crystals caused the failure of BP's first, similar attempt to contain the leak. Wildlife and shorelines across four US states are threatened by the spill, though Louisiana has so far borne the brunt of the disaster, with thick oil washing into its fragile marshlands, coating wildlife in crude. A fishing ban in the Gulf was expanded by more than 8,000 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) Tuesday, closing off an area roughly the size of Greece. Related article:Probe finds gifts, drugs, bogus reports at US oil regulator In Biloxi, Mississippi, fishmongers said they had been forced to import shrimps from Alabama. "Most of the shrimpers are not allowed to go out," Sean Desporte told AFP. "A lot of clients... are asking if we've found oil in the shrimps." Political pressure was rising in Washington, where the Mineral Management Service, which regulates offshore drilling, came under new scrutiny after a Department of Interior report said staff members used illegal drugs, accepted gifts from oil companies and falsified inspection reports. Obama also raised the oil spill in meetings with Republicans, telling them the disaster "should heighten our sense of urgency to hasten the development of new, clean energy sources," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. New hearings into the April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig were held in Washington, as lawmakers released details of a preliminary BP investigation that found multiple warning signs before the blast. Eleven people were killed in the accident. Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak said there were three worrying flow indicators from the well in the hour before the accident alone. But a series of problems were also detected in the 24 hours before the blast, including unexpected pressure rises and fluid leaks, flaws in cementing done to the well, and deviations by rig workers from a drilling plan. 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