This really doesn’t give you a warm and fuzzy feeling that anyone down there really knows what is going on. Times-Picayune:

It is possible that BP’s once-gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well is already dead, and that the maneuver long touted as the ultimate solution for permanently plugging the well won’t be needed, the federal government’s point person for the oil spill response said Thursday.
There’s a chance that crews sufficiently — and inadvertently — killed the Macondo well last week after pumping it with mud and cement in a “static kill,” National Incident Commander Thad Allen said Thursday.
“We may be the victims of our own success here,” Allen said. “If the cement is already there it would obviate the need to do the bottom kill.”
Though he called it a “low-probability outcome,” Allen’s comments were the first time he has publicly suggested that the well could be sealed in any way other than by having a relief well intercept the Macondo well 18,000 feet below the Gulf’s surface and pump it with mud and cement.
Whether the so-called bottom kill is necessary will depend on the results of a pressure test conducted on the well Thursday afternoon. BP engineers and a team of government and academic scientists were expected to review the results Thursday evening before making a decision on what’s next
The test will tell the scientists whether there is oil in the well’s annulus and, if there is, whether it is static or coming from the reservoir.

Good news, if true. The rest here.