* From Al Jazeera *
The energy company BP has said that its efforts to contain an oil spill from a broken well deep in the Gulf of Mexico using a 100-tonne steel-and-concrete box have not succeeded so far.
Ice-like crystals encrusted the walls of the box on Saturday, forcing crews to repeal their attempts to stop the leak, BP said.
Workers who had carefully lowered the massive box over the leak, nearly 1.6km below the surface of the water, had to lift it and move it to the side.
“The build-up of the crystals in the box made it too buoyant and clogged it up,” Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, said.
“I wouldn’t say it’s failed yet – what I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work,” Suttles said.
He said BP had anticipated encountering difficulties with the box, but had not expected them to be as significant as a problem.
The containment box had been considered the best hope of stemming the flow in the short term.
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