Also, some 2010-11 mayels may have oil leaking from the timing chain tensioner.
He said that video images from the wellhead showed a "curtain of oil" leaking from under the cap.
(It works particularly well as a sop for the oil leaking beautifully from rounds of crisp beef pepperoni topping, $3).
BP said Friday that it had captured 25,290 barrels on Thursday of crude oil leaking from the wrecked well.
"With oil leaking all over the place and cars monopolising spaces for months, it's become unbearable," she says.
The footage shows black, billowing clouds of oil leaking furiously from the ruptured well pipe, 5,000 feet below the surface.
He added, "This is not the end, but it will virtually assure us there will be no chance of oil leaking into the environment".
In the first few weeks after the oil rig explosion, BP kept a tight lid on images of the oil leaking into the gulf.
And in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90percentt of the oil leaking out of the well.
Mr. Wells said he could not yet say how much oil had been captured or what percentage of the oil leaking from a 21-inch riser pipe was now flowing into the 4-inch-wide insertion tube.
The maneuver was their handiwork, and a critical step in the latest of what had been a string of dismal efforts to capture some of the oil leaking since theexplosion.
