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The Washington Post
4:26 PM (7 minutes ago)

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News Alert
04:18 PM EDT Tuesday, August 3, 2010
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BP says its engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in hopes of choking it for good.

BP spokesman John Barnes says crews launched the so-called “static kill” process Tuesday at 3 p.m. Central time to plug up the well and then possibly seal it with cement.

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