CODEPINK Protests BP

May 18th, 2010

Win McNamee / Getty Images Lamar McKay (right), BP America chairman and president, waits to testify before a Senate committee investigating the cause of the explosion on the drilling rig and subsequent spill.

BP to step up push to siphon crude, shut well, San Fransisco Chronicle

BP is siphoning up to 1,000 barrels of oil a day from the undersea leak in the Gulf of Mexico and hopes to double that while workers close in on another attempt to shut down the well for good.

A flexible tube inserted into one section of leaking pipe Sunday is now drawing about 20 percent of the estimated 5,000 barrels per day of oil pouring from the well located 40 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. A barrel is 42 gallons. Read more