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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles Cap Installed Over Leaking Rig As BP Gets $69M Bill For Clean-Up Email Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! ShareThis June 4, 2010 9:12 a.m. EST Topics: government, politics, oil and gas - upstream activities, environmental issue, environmental pollution, economy, business and finance, national government, energy and resource, United States Kris Alingod - AHN News Contributor New Orleans, LA, United States (AHN) - BP successfully installed a containment cap over the sunken oil rig in the Gulf Coast late Thursday night, six weeks after its oil began leaking and failed attempts to plug the rig with heavy mud. The cap won't stop the leak, but will contain it until underwater relief wells are finished in late summer. "It will be sometime before we can confirm that this method will work and to what extent it will mitigate the release of oil into the environment," Adm. Thad Allen, commander of the government's multi-agency response operations, said in statement. "Even if successful, this is only a temporary and partial fix and we must continue our aggressive response operations at the source, on the surface and along the Gulf's precious coastline." The cap was placed after the rig's damaged pipe was removed, a method never before attempted at depths of 5,000 feet. BP first used a diamond saw that failed to cut the pipe. Giant shears did the job but did not give as clean a cut as needed. "Given the type of cut they have right now, this is the best containment cap to be used and it is not like the one that was used earlier," Allen said in a Thursday briefing where concerns about the jagged cut from the shears were raised. The device now in place is different from the containment domes BP attempted to install in early May. Ice-like methane crystals formed in the first structure BP tried to put over the pipe, and a smaller dome designed to prevent the accumulation of crystals similarly failed. The current containment cap will not plug the leak but contain it by siphoning fuel up to the surface, where a ship will produce oil and flare off natural gas, a plan that Allen has said will be slow and difficult with hurricane season underway. The cap method will serve to mitigate the disaster until BP finishes drilling two wells that will relieve pressure from the sunken rig's existing well. Drilling of the relief wells began early May and will take two more months. "We’re not talking about capping the well anymore; we’re talking about containing the well," Allen said early this week. "The difference between capping the well and absorbing the pressure and being able to hold that until the relief well is completed [is where] we’re at, now... the ultimate solution to this whole thing will be sometime in August, we hope." Rust-colored oil has been gushing out into the Gulf Coast at the rate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day since the April 20 explosion of the rig. The blast killed 11 workers of Transocean, which owns the drilling platform, and caused the largest spill in the nation's history. Nearly 14 million gallons of oil-water mix have been recovered and officials are working to help affected wildlife. More than 200 sea turtles and more than two dozen dolphins have died. Commerce Sec. Gary Locke on Thursday included Florida in his declaration of a fishery disaster. He previously made the declaration for Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The Obama administration has sent BP a preliminary bill of $69 million for clean-up operations. The company, which owns the oil leaking into the Gulf and operates the license on which Transocean's rig was drilling, has until next month to pay the amount. BP is also the focus of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department. The probe is separate from inquiries conducted by Congress and the Coast Guard. The company is said to have ignored safety issues and falsely informed the government that it had a contingency plan for large-scale spills. It had refused to release live footage of the fuel gushing out of the damaged well for federal scientists to examine until days after the blast. BP has released a television ad featuring its chief executive, Tony Hayward, apologizing for the disaster. The ad follows comments made by Hayward in interviews saying the impact of the slick would be "very, very modest" and that he "would like his life back." "I don't think a CEO needs to tell people in the Gulf that there's not any pollution or he'd like his life back," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a Thursday briefing. "There's 11 people that.... were killed the very first night of this incident. And the harm that's being done there will take years to fix. We will hold BP responsible throughout this process." 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. 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