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Plug holding, but relief well still in works

Experts study how to proceed

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES

Posted: August 14, 2010 at 5:37 a.m.

Patrick Semansky
Credit: AP
National Incident Commander Thad Allen, left, speaks at a news conference on Friday with U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft where Allen urged that crews must move forward with the drilling of the Deepwater Horizon relief well in the Gulf of Mexico in Schriever, Louisiana.

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

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