Surface Picture of All Vessels Near BP Gulf Oil Spill (Graphic) *Massive effort underway*

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Surface Picture of All Vessels Near BP Gulf Oil Spill

Below is a a graphic released by The Official Site of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command on July 18, 2010. This graphic shows the effort and deployment on the surface above the Macondo well aka BP Gulf Oil Spill.

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Oil is seeping from the sea floor near the capped well. No information yet as to the extent of this leak. Also, "cap pressure was at 6,778 psi Sunday morning, still short of a 6,800 psi goal (BP COO) Suttles said was set by BP and federal officials as one sign of the cap's success."

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Engineers Detect Seepage Near BP's Capped Oil Well (CNBC)
Oil seeping from Gulf floor near well, but Coast Guard allows cap to stay in place another 24 hours (NOLA)

Associated Press says oil may be seeping from BP well (NOLA)

The Official Site of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command (Deepwater Horizon Response)

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Oil Flow Stopped By New Cap (Video) *How cap has stopped leak*

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Installed Capping Stack

New Cap Has Stopped Oil Flow, At Least Temporarily

Good overview of how BP is testing the new cap and what the plans are. Reported by Keith Olbermann last night.

(MSNBC) Oil industry expert Bob Cavnar discusses the details of the cap that has stopped the flow of oil from BP's broken well.

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New Cap Placed on Leaking BP Oil Well (Video) *Robots attach tighter-fitting cap*

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Newly Installed Capping Stack

150,000-pound metal stack installed on top of the leaking gusher

(MSNBC) BP robots attached a new, tighter-fitting cap on top of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak Monday, raising hopes that the crude could be kept from polluting the water for the first time in nearly three months. The cap will be tested and monitored to see if it can withstand pressure from oil and gas starting Tuesday morning for six to 48 hours, according to National Incident Commander Thad Allen.

(NBC Nightly News) New Cap Fails To Contain Frustration: As BP installed a new containment cap on its busted oil well Monday, there were many emotional outbursts at the first public hearing of the presidential commission on the spill. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

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Link: New cap put on leaking BP oil well (MSNBC)

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BP Plan to Replace Cap on Well (Video) *Replace LMRP with Capping Stack*

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(NOLA.com) Workers on Saturday install a choke on the "capping stack" onboard the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration in preparation of attaching it to the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf. The well has been leaking oil into the Gulf since an explosion on the rig April 20 caused a blow out. (AP Photo/BP, Marc Morrison)

BP to Replace LMRP with Capping Stack

(Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune) The new capping system replaces an ill-fitting top, called the Lower Marine Riser Package cap, that had been in place for a month before it was removed Saturday. The system is essentially a new blowout preventer with a cap on top. The device, called a "capping stack," is about 18 feet tall and weighs about 150,000 pounds. Installing it is a multiphase process.

(CNN) Animation below shows BP's plan to replace the cap on the ruptured Deep Horizon well.

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Native American Tribe Affected by BP Gulf Oil Spill (Video) "There has to be a respect for life"

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Atakapa Trace Junction: The Sunset People and the Sunrise People

Atakapa-Ishak Nation Struggles with BP Gulf Oil Spill

"There has to be a respect for life."

Rosina Phillipe: "We are subsistence still. We have not given up that way of life. We live totally from the land. Everything we need is here in this environment. We have to respect nature. There has to be a respect for life. How long can nature continue to try to recover from what we try to do to it? This is what people have done".

A boy, Jake Phillips: "They (the animals) are dying from it (the BP Gulf Oil Spill). The animals depend on us and we depend on them".

"We, the Atakapa-Ishak (uh-TAK-uh-paw - ee-SHAK), are a Southwest Louisiana/Southeast Texas tribe of ancient Indians who lived in the Gulf of Mexico's northwestern crescent and called ourselves Ishak. The name means The People."

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Source - Rachel Maddow Blog: "Natives to BP: 'Life is important'

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