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It will be stopped. The current plan calls for the completion of relief wells in August. The relief wells are the conventional means of killing a blown out well. The blow out occurred on April 20, and it took 13 days to get all the required equipment and approvals to drill the first relief well. It takes 3 months to drill a well to the required depth of 13,000 ft below the sea floor. Heavy drill mud will continously be pump until the well stops flowing. It may take several days before the well finally dies. The well will be filled with cement. I expect the blowout preventer will be removed using the ROV's for inspection.

I can't say everything will go as plan, and if there are unforeseen circumstances, the completion of drilling could go beyond August. I consider this an unlikely event, particularly since progress on drilling has been good.

The top kill was done to try to save some time. It was an unproved method at 5,000 ft of water.

The latest news is that the leak has been stopped.

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