BP wrestles oil spill, Obama to pause deep drilling
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BP Plc wrestled on Thursday to plug its gushing deepwater Gulf of Mexico well in the latest attempt to control the source of a catastrophic five-week-old oil spill and President Barack Obama was due to extend a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling.
BP Managing Director Robert Dudley said a complex "top kill" operation started Wednesday to try to halt the seabed well's flow by pumping heavy drilling fluids into it was "moving the way we want it to." But he told NBC's "Today Show" it was too early to say whether it had been successful. (Reuters)
