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The news from the Gulf of Mexico seafloor is good.
BP pumped the infamous Deepwater Horizon well full of cement on Thursday. The cement appears to be doing its job. And, after some pressure tests on Friday afternoon confirmed that fact, work on the relief well resumed.
If that work continues according to plan, in one to two weeks, the broken well will finally be pronounced dead.
Doug Stuttles, the outgoing head of BP's cleanup operations, is cautiously optimistic:
We’re far from finished. But clearly we feel like we’re moving to a new phase, because it has been three weeks since we’ve seen oil flowing into the sea, and there is no recoverable oil on the water.
Hopefully the "new phase" will go more smoothly than the phases it is following.
