The oil giant BP says it has had some success at containing oil that is gushing unabated into the Gulf of Mexico. BP says it has succeeded in inserting a tube into the leaking well and siphoning some of the oil to a drilling rig at the surface. But a substantial amount of oil continues to leak at the bottom of the Gulf, and BP has been unable to close the well. Up to 70,000 barrels of oil have been leaking into the Gulf every day since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20.
BP executive Kent Wells talked to reporters in Houston.

Kent Wells, BP executive: “What we’ve done is the oil and gas have been leaking out through the end of the riser. And what we’ve done is submit a tool in the end of the riser to start to extract some of that flow and bring it directly to the drill ship so it never enters into the Gulf of Mexico.”