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  • BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf (operation to resume sometime Tuesday afternoon)

    06/15/2010 12:23:14 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 467+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/15/10 | Ray Henry - ap
    NEW ORLEANS – A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from a blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill, the company said. The fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured. BP said it hopes to resume containing oil from the well sometime Tuesday afternoon. The fire occurred on the Discoverer Enterprise, where engineers are siphoning about 630,000 gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well....