BP prepares to plug Gulf oil well for good

US: BP Plc could start plugging its broken deepsea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday night, more than three months after its rupture led to the worst offshore oil spill in US history.

BP engineers were preparing to pump heavy drilling mud and cement into the well in a procedure known as a “static kill,” retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the U.S. official overseeing the federal spill response, said on Sunday.

He said the two-pronged effort to finally kill the runaway well would start “as early as Monday night” or possibly early on Tuesday with the static kill procedure.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, Monday, Reuters