HOUSTON — BP had to halt its ambitious effort to plug its stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping along with the leaking crude oil.
So I assume those plumes of mud I wrote about in the previous post will revert to being oil again. That is, if the plumes were ever mud in the first place, or just a mixture.
UPDATE: They've resumed the top kill.