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BP Oil Spill: Company Says Tube Is Containing One Fifth Of Spill

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First Posted: 7/17/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Yahoo! News:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) â€" BP said Monday that about 20 percent of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is being swallowed up by its insertion tube system, no longer feeding a giant slick off Louisiana.

But the British energy giant's first concrete success in almost a month of efforts to tackle the spill risked being overshadowed by fears that huge underwater plumes of crude could be starving the waters of oxygen.

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) â€" BP said Monday that about 20 percent of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is being swallowed up by its insertion tube system, no longer feeding a giant slick off...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) â€" BP said Monday that about 20 percent of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is being swallowed up by its insertion tube system, no longer feeding a giant slick off...
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