Engineers come up with begun the "top kill" operation aimed on stanching the surge of grease from a blown-out well on the underneath of the Gulf of Mexico, BP and U.S. Coast Guard established.
The much-awaited procedure began on 1 p.M. Central Daylight Time, according to BP.
The operation, which BP officials warned might take hours or days to complete, would attempt to overpower the upward current of grease by pumping drilling fluid -- and eventually a prop up mixture -- on prominent pressure down the well. Several hundred engineers in Houston come up with prepped intended for the effort intended for weeks.
If executed incorrectly, however, the top take life might blow the fail-safe systems, dramatically increasing the current of grease.
Engineers had worked through the night to gauge pressure and run other diagnostic tests associated with the billowing grease. Dressed in a sign of the fault-finding worth of the effort, Energy Secretary Steven Chu -- a Nobel-winning physicist -- personally tied the diagnostic team in Houston.
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