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Relief well to be completed in gulf

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Although tests of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico appear to show that it is fully sealed, the government said Friday that work on a relief well will continue to complete the job of permanently plugging the gusher.

“The relief well will be finished,” Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who leads the spill response, said at a press briefing in Schriever, La. But he said BP and government scientists were still studying the test results to determine the precise procedures to be followed in completing the relief well.

Admiral Allen said that the tests showed that there was no “communication” in the Macondo well between the reservoir of oil and the surface. But he stopped short of declaring victory in the more than three-month effort to stem the leak.

Ful story: Relief Well to Be Completed in Gulf – NYTimes.com