Some good news:

Tube siphons some gushing oil in Gulf
Engineers Sunday successfully threaded a mile-long tube into a section of the blown pipe that has been spewing thousands of gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, marking a major step in corralling the massive spill.
The tube is siphoning oil gushing out of the well and sucking it up 5,000 feet to a tanker ship on the surface, said Kent Wells, senior vice president for exploration and production with BP, which owns the underground oil well. BP engineers should know by today or Tuesday how much of the oil is being captured, he said.
“So far, it’s working extremely well,” Wells said.
Engineers had been trying since Friday to remotely guide robot submersibles, positioned nearly a mile below the water’s surface, to thread the pipe. Crews have been working round-the-clock to cap the well since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank about 50 miles off Louisiana’s coast on April 20, killing 11 crewmembers and sparking an ecological emergency.
In the next week to 10 days, engineers plan to pump mud through valves in the blowout preventer, a massive device that sits on top of the well, Wells said. The mud will be used to jam up the oil flow and buy time so that workers can finish drilling a nearby relief well, he said. The relief well, which would alleviate pressure and permanently seal the leaks, is still several months from completion.

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