P-21 OIL POISON UPDATE NEWS

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html
PART 9-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-9-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 10-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-10-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 11-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-11-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 12-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-12-oil-spill-news.html
PART 13-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-13-oil-spill-update.html
PART 14-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 15-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-15-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 16-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-16-poison-disaster-scheme.html
PART 17-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-17-poison-disaster-news-setup-spill.html
PART 18-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-18-poison-disaster-update.html
PART 19-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-19-poison-oil-disaster.html
PART 20-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-20-oil-poison-disaster.html

GRANT JEFFREY ON WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THE ENVIROMENTAL RELIGION CULT SCAM OF GLOBAL WARMING UNDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SCAM.CARBON TAX,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1279
WW3 COMING TOGETHER-GRANT JEFFREY-RUSSIA WANTS OIL CONTOL DOMINATION.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1369
HOLLY SWANSON ON OBAMA CAP & TRADE SCAM-ENVIROMENTALS DICTATORSHIP JUNE 21,10 HR 1
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/june-2010/
OIL SLICK REACHES FLORIDA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250674/oil-slick-reaches-florida?playlist_id=86856
WHAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS OIL SPILL-LAST 30 MINUTES OF SHOW
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2353
http://ruvysroost.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-ALL MUT LISTEN
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2357
TOXIC WATER AT SPILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1
OIL RAIN POISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC9W8EqRUQ
http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/extreme/oil-rain-lousiana.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZnDYsnRP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4&feature=player_embedded
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK-ENVIROMENT-DISASTER STAGED BANKERS=WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6642758020554799808#
OBAMA NEEDS TERRORIST ATTACK TO SAVE ADMINISTRATION-STAGED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-CIxjm5-Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuL9SNdaSqc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFXy0apNuQ&feature=player_embedded
FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1219
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1227
JONES ON BP FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TAX SCAM THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ&feature=player_embedded

ITS DAY 93 WED JULY 21,2010 OF THE POISON DISASTER.AND GUESS WHATS IN STORE.REMEMBER THAT $46 TRILLION NEEDED FOR THE ENERGY COMMITTEE I WAS SAYING,WELL NOW THE DEMOCRATES WANT THE CAP & TAX BILL PASSED BY AUGUST 6,10.SURPRISE-SURPRISE,DID I NOT WARN YOU THEY WILL PASS OR TRY TO PASS QUICK THE CAP & TAX TO PAY TAXES TO THE BANK OF THE WORLD THE IMF AND THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS.AND WHO ARE THE JOLLYJUMPER SUCKERS WHO HAVE TO PAY THESE TAXES,US USELESS EATERS DO.AMERICANS BETTER STAND UP AGAINST THAT FRAUD BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA TO STOP THIS $46 TRILLION TAX BILL THAT THEY NEED TO PASS SO AMERICA WILL NOT GO TOTALLY BROKE FOR A FEW YEARS.

ITS 1:30PM JULY 21,10 AND BP HAS POISONED THE GULF WITH BETWEEN 40 AND 84 MILLION GALLONS OF COREXIT DISPERCENT TO BREAK UP THE OIL.IF THIS CAN BREAK UP THE OIL THAT GOOD JUST THINK HOW WHEN INHALED FROM THE GULF HOW IT WILL POISON YOUR MUSCLES AND CELLS(RESPIRATORY SYSTEM) IN YOUR BODY.WE COULD SEE BIGTIME DEATHS FROM THIS COREXIT FROM THE WIND BLOWING OFF THE GULF.

42 MILLION to 84 MILLION Gallons of COREXIT USED JULY 13,10

Government Experts reveal 420 MILLION to 840 MILLION gallons of BP oil have flowed into GulfNational Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Day 2, July 13, 2010:Ed Overton, professor emeritus of the Louisiana State University department of environmental sciences:It typically does that at concentrations 1/10th the amount of oil. The normal dispersant used is one part dispersant into 10 parts oil or 20 parts.Just a few minutes later the governments only other expert witness on the panel, Christopher Reddy, an associate scientist of marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, added:
The dispersant alone at 1/10th the load is not ideal but I think it is necessary.

As reported in the New Orleans Times Picayune, Reddy commented on the amount of dispersants used to date in the BP oil disaster:Reddy said he is also concerned about the total amount of dispersants used, which is unprecedented. He noted that 1 million barrels [42 million gallons] of dispersants have been applied to the Gulf of Mexico to fight this spill, more than the amount of oil spilled in any single accident prior to the BP disaster.(More information on the 42 million gallons of dispersant used in the Gulf)Using the 1 million barrels of dispersant means that, at a ratio of 1:10, there has been 10 million barrels of oil released in to the Gulf of Mexico since late April.At the 1:20 ratio, there would be 20 million barrels of oil released.According to the only two expert witnesses called by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the amount of oil entering the Gulf of Mexico during this disaster is now between 420 million and 840 million gallons (10-20 million barrels).
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/go...leased-in-gulf

IT DAY 94 OF THE POISON DISASTER JULY 22,THU,2010.STORM BREWS SO BP GETS AN EXCUSE TO LEAVE THE WELL.

ITS DAY 95 OF THE POISON DISASTER.FRI JULY 23,10 AND THE ABANDONED POISON WELL WILL GET A BREAK TILL THE STORM PASSES.THIS STORM COULD THROW THE DISPERSANT POISON ALL OVER THE PLACE TO POISON ALL PARTS OF THE GULF IF BAD ENOUGH.

ITS DAY 96 OF THE POISON DISASTER SAT JULY 24,10.ALL QUIET ON THE RIG DUE TO STORM.

Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well By Sara Kennedy, McClatchy Newspapers – Fri Jul 23, 9:10 pm ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as plumes and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday.Until now, scientists had circumstantial evidence, but lacked that definitive scientific link.The announcement came on the same day that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that its researchers have confirmed the existence of the subsea plumes at depths of 3,300 to 4,300 feet below the surface of the Gulf. NOAA said its detection equipment also implicated the BP well in the plumes' creation.Together, the two studies confirm what in the early days of the spill was denied by BP and viewed skeptically by NOAA's chief — that much of the crude that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well stayed beneath the surface of the water.What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is, said chemical oceanographer David Hollander , one of three USF researchers credited with the matching samples of oil taken from the water with samples from the BP well.It has gone from a two-dimensional disaster to a three-dimensional catastrophe.The other scientists involved in making the link, USF said, were biological oceanographer Ernst Peebles and geological oceanographer David Naar .

The finding is important because oil that escaped from the mile-deep, blown-out well had been treated with dispersants, which broke the oil in the water column into tiny droplets, and therefore did not form an oil slick at the surface, said Richard H. Pierce , senior scientist and director of the Center for Ecotoxicology at Sarasota's Mote Marine Laboratory .It's more readily taken up and absorbed and ingested by marine animals, he explained.Although dispersed oil degrades more quickly over the long-run, in the short-term, it poses a more toxic threat to marine life, Pierce said.So, we've been very concerned, and it is critical USF has verified it, he said.

The full report was not released Friday, but will be available sometime next week, USF spokeswoman Vickie Chachere said.BP declined to comment on the USF discovery. We have only seen media reports, and have not yet seen the report and underlying data, BP spokesman Phil Cochrane said in an e-mail.USF scientists found microscopic droplets of biodegraded oil at varying depths beneath the Gulf's surface, the university said in a statement.One layer was 100 feet thick; it was found 45 nautical miles north-northeast of the well site, officials said.The researchers found the plumes after models created by a USF expert in ocean currents, Robert Weisberg , predicted subsurface oil from the Deepwater Horizon well would move toward the north-northeast, USF said.The clouds were found near the DeSoto Canyon , a critical area that interacts with Florida's spawning grounds, USF said.The NOAA study made similar findings. According to the report, which was reviewed by 19 scientists known as the Joint Analysis Group , data collected by five research ships deployed in the Gulf from May 19 to June 19 showed oil suspended in the water between 1,000 and 1,300 meters — about 3,280 feet to 4,265 feet.The NOAA scientists detected the oil by measuring its fluorescence — many of the droplets are too small to detect otherwise — and said that that measurement linked it to the BP well.

The report said the oil had been detected in heaviest concentrations near the BP well and that its concentrations dropped as the ships moved away from the well, but that not enough samples had been taken to determine the full horizontal extent of the plumes. The report also said the impact of the oil on sealife had yet to be determined. Even at low concentrations, the report said, the oil might be biologically meaningful because of the length of time fish and other organisms would be exposed to it. The report also said that scientists had detected lower levels of dissolved oxygen in the water at depths below 3,280 feet, but that they could determine why the levels were low with certainty. They said the levels were no so low as to be fatal to sealife. Steven Murawski , chief scientist for NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, said the data confirm that the subsea plumes of oil were the result of the Deepwater Horizon well. That's a real smoking gun, as far as we're concerned,he said.It really is a flow from the well. In May, when scientists first reported that they had discovered oil beneath the Gulf's surface and blamed it on the Deepwater Horizon spill, they were denounced by both BP and NOAA chief Jane Lunchenco. BP CEO Tony Hayward denied that such plumes existed and Lubchecno called the reports misleading, premature and, in some cases, inaccurate.

Oil spill work on hold as Bonnie approaches By HARRY R. WEBER and DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writers - 6:45AM JULY 23,10

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Work to permanently choke off the oil well that had been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was at a standstill Friday after ships around the site were ordered to evacuate ahead of the approaching Tropical Storm Bonnie.There had been worries that the cap that has mostly contained the oil would have to be reopened and left gushing if a major storm came through. But engineers were confident enough in the strength of the cap that they decided to leave it sealed while most of the ships on the surface were told to leave the area.Meanwhile, a tropical storm watch was issued early Friday for the northern Gulf coast from Destin, Fla., to Morgan City, La.The storm, which blossomed over the Bahamas and was to enter the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend, could delay by another 12 days the push to plug the broken well for good using mud and cement, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen and BP officials conceded. Even if it's not a direct hit, the rough weather will push back efforts to kill the well by at least a week.While this is not a hurricane, it's a storm that will have probably some significant impacts, we're taking appropriate cautions, Allen said in Mobile, Ala.Bonnie had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph (65 kph) early Friday as it swirled about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of Miami.The delay in work would be worse if BP had to fully open the cap while the ships closely monitoring the well head left. More oil would have been allowed to spew into the Gulf until they returned.

A week of steady measurements through cameras and other devices convinced Allen they don't need to open vents to relieve pressure on the cap, which engineers had worried might contribute to leaks underground and an even bigger blowout. The cap was attached a week ago, and only minor leaks have been detected.Allen said earlier in the day that evacuating the vessels could leave the well head unmonitored for up to a few days. He said he ordered BP to make sure the ships carrying the robotic submarines watching the well are the last to leave and the first to return.Allen issued the order Thursday night to begin moving dozens of vessels from the spill site, including the rig that's drilling the relief tunnel engineers will use to permanently throttle the free-flowing crude near the bottom of the well. Some vessels could stay on site, he said.While these actions may delay the effort to kill the well for several days, the safety of the individuals at the well site is our highest concern,he said in a statement.It was unclear Thursday night whether some of the vessels would go back to port or head farther south in the Gulf out of the path of the storm and await orders once the storm passes. The Coast Guard cutter Decisive, the hurricane guard for the vessels at the spill site, was awaiting instructions. In an evacuation, the Decisive is the last vessel to leave the area.

Bonnie caused flooding in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti before reaching tropical storm strength later Thursday, and Allen said crews expected sustained wind above 39 mph at the spill site by early Saturday.Seas already were choppy in the Gulf, with waves up to five feet rocking boats as crews prepared to leave, and more of the smaller boats involved in the coastal cleanup were called into port, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft said.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said he expects local leaders in coastal parishes to call for evacuation of low-lying areas as early as Friday morning.At the spill site, the water no longer looks thick with gooey tar. But the oil is still there beneath the surface, staining the hull of cutters motoring around in it.One large vessel — the Helix Q4000 — is burning off oil collected from the water, and bright orange flames flared at the side of the ship.Scientists say even a severe storm shouldn't affect the well cap, nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface 40 miles from the Louisiana coast. Assuming all lines are disconnected from the surface, there should be no effect on the well head by a passing surface storm, said Paul Bommer, professor of petroleum engineering at University of Texas at Austin. Charles Harwell, a BP contractor monitoring the cap, was also confident. That cap was specially made, it's on tight, we've been looking at the progress and it's all good, he said after his ship returned to Port Fourchon, La.

Before the cap was attached and closed a week ago, the broken well spewed 94 million to 184 million gallons into the Gulf after the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Work on plugging the well came to a standstill Wednesday, just days before authorities had hoped to complete the relief shaft. Allen said Thursday he has told BP to go ahead preparing for a second measure called a static kill that would pump mud and cement into the well from the top, a move he said would increase the relief well's chances for success. BP will have to get final approval from Allen before starting the procedure.Vice President Joe Biden visited cleanup workers in southern Alabama, and said he was cheered the cap could remain on.After the storm's passage we will be right back out there,Biden said.
Associated Press writers Colleen Long in Port Fourchon, La., Michael Kunzelman in New Orleans and Melissa Nelson in Theodore, Ala., contributed to this report.

Ships ready to leave leaky well as storm brews By HARRY WEBER and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writers - JULY 22,10 9:00AM

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.

Though the rough weather was hundreds of miles from the spill site and wouldn't enter the Gulf for at least a few more days, officials ordered technicians trying to plug BP's well to stand down because they needed several days to clear the area, where about 65 ships are tending to the spill.It's a controlled chaos out there, Lt. Patrick Montgomery told an Associated Press reporter aboard the Coast Guard cutter Decisive heading to the spill site from Pascagoula, Miss.The cutter, with a 75-member crew, is the Coast Guard's primary search and rescue vessel and would be the last ship to leave in the event of an evacuation. It was within a few miles of the well site Thursday morning.Just days before the expected completion of a relief well designed to permanently throttle the free-flowing crude, the government's spill chief said Wednesday that work was suspended.Worse yet, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said foul weather could require reopening the cap that has contained the oil for nearly a week, allowing oil to gush into the sea again for days while engineers wait out the storm.This is necessarily going to be a judgment call, said Allen, who was waiting to see how the storm developed before deciding whether to order any of the ships and crews stationed some 50 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico to head for safety.The cluster of thunderstorms passed over Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, and forecasters said the system would probably move into the Gulf over the weekend. They gave it a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or a tropical storm by Friday.Crews had planned to spend Wednesday and Thursday reinforcing with cement the last few feet of the relief tunnel that will be used to pump mud into the gusher and kill it once and for all. But BP put the task on hold and instead placed a temporary plug called a storm packer deep inside the tunnel, in case it has to be abandoned until the storm passes.What we didn't want to do is be in the middle of an operation and potentially put the relief well at some risk,BP vice president Kent Wells said.

Reuters
If the work crews are evacuated, it could be two weeks before they can resume the effort to kill the well. That would upset BP's timetable, which called for finishing the relief tunnel by the end of July and plugging the blown-out well by early August.

Scientists have been scrutinizing underwater video and pressure data for days, trying to determine if the capped well is holding tight or in danger of rupturing and causing an even bigger disaster. If the storm prevents BP from monitoring the well, the cap may simply be reopened, allowing oil to spill into the water, Allen said.BP and government scientists were meeting to discuss whether the cap could be monitored from shore.As the storm drew closer, boat captains hired by BP for skimming duty were sent home and told they wouldn't be going back out for five or six days, said Tom Ard, president of the Orange Beach Fishing Association in Alabama.

In Florida, crews removed booms intended to protect waterways in the Panhandle from oil. High winds and storm surge could carry the booms into sensitive wetlands.Also, Shell Oil began evacuating employees out in the Gulf.Even if the storm does not hit the area directly, it could affect the effort to contain the oil and clean it up. Hurricane Alex stayed 500 miles away last month, yet skimming in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida was curtailed for nearly a week.The relief tunnel extends about two miles under the seabed and is about 50 to 60 feet vertically and four feet horizontally from the ruptured well. BP plans to insert a final string of casing, or drilling pipe, cement it into place, and give it up to a week to set, before attempting to punch through to the blown-out well and kill it. BP's broken well spewed somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons into the Gulf before the cap was attached. The crisis — the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history — unfolded after the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The cause of the blast is still under investigation, but there have been repeated questions raised by rig workers over the equipment and safety conditions aboard the rig. The New York Times reported early Thursday that rig workers said in a confidential survey before the April 20 explosion that they were concerned about safety and the condition of some equipment on board. The Times reported that another report conducted for Transocean by Lloyd's Register Group found that several pieces of equipment — including the rams in the failed blowout preventer on the well head — had not been inspected since 2000, despite guidelines calling for inspection every three to five years. Transocean said most of the equipment was minor and the blowout preventer was inspected by manufacturer guidelines.A spokesman for Transocean, the owner of the rig leased by BP, confirmed the existence of the reports to The Associated Press.As part of Transocean's unwavering commitment to safety and rigorous maintenance discipline on all our rigs, we proactively commissioned the safety survey and the rig assessment review,Transocean spokesman Lou Colasuonno said in an e-mail early Thursday. A fair reading of those detailed third-party reviews indicates clearly that while certain areas could be enhanced, overall rig maintenance met or exceeded regulatory and industry standards and the Deepwater Horizon's safety management was strong and a culture of safety was robust on board the rig.Associated Press writers Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., David Dishneau and Phuong Le in New Orleans and Robert Barr in London contributed to this report, along with AP energy writer Chris Kahn in New York.

Spill chief says the capped well is holding up By COLLEEN LONG and FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writers 10:00PM JULY 20,10

NEW ORLEANS – The government's oil spill chief tried to tamp down fears Tuesday that BP's capped well is buckling under the pressure, saying that seepage detected along the sea floor less than two miles away is coming from an older well no longer in production.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen also said at least five leaks have been discovered around the well machinery, but he dismissed them as very small drips — not unlike an oil leak you might have in your car.Over the past few days, since a 75-ton cap was placed over the mile-deep well to keep the oil bottled up inside, BP and government engineers have been watching closely to see whether the well would hold tight or show signs of rupturing under the pressure. A rupture could cause a bigger and harder-to-control disaster.Allen has granted BP repeated 24-hour extensions to keep the cap in place, as long as the company monitors the well scrupulously.Meanwhile, the end game in the three-month crisis appeared to be drawing closer, with BP vice president Kent Wells saying the drilling of the relief well — necessary to permanently plug up the well — is on track. He said crews hope to drill sideways into the blown-out well and intercept it at the end of July.

At that point, they will begin the kill procedure — pumping mud and cement into the hole deep underground to seal it up once and for all. BP said that stage could take anywhere from five days to a couple of weeks.Everything's looking good," Wells said. The relief well is exactly where we want it. It's pointed in the right direction, and so we're feeling good about that.BP wants to leave the cap on in the meantime. At one point, Allen wanted instead to relieve the pressure by opening up the cap and siphoning oil up to ships on the surface, but he has relented in the past few days. Opening up the cap would have required allowing millions of gallons to gush into the sea again for a few days while the plumbing was hooked up.In the meantime, engineers are considering shooting drilling mud down through the cap to increase the chances that the attempt to kill the well deep underground will succeed.The seepage detected from the sea floor briefly raised fears that the well was in danger. But Allen said another well is to blame. The seepage is closer to the older well than to the one that blew out, Allen said. Also, he said, it's not unusual to have seepage around the old wells.There are two wells within two miles of BP's blowout off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. One has been abandoned and another is not in production. Around 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf aren't checked for leaks, an Associated Press investigation showed this month.The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and touching off one of America's worst environmental crises. The well has spewed somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons into the Gulf. BP said the cost of dealing with the spill has now reached nearly $4 billion.

In other spill-related developments Tuesday:
-Meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, British Prime Minister David Cameron turned down a request for a new investigation into Scotland's release of a man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a jetliner over Lockerbie. BP has disputed allegations that it pressed for the man's release because it was seeking access to Libya's oil fields.
-BP said it is selling some oil fields and other major holdings in the U.S., Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp. for $7 billion to help cover the costs of the oil spill. Some or all of the proceeds will go toward a $20 billion victims compensation fund that BP agreed to last month under pressure from the Obama administration.
-At a hearing in suburban New Orleans, one of the ill-fated rig's drilling supervisors told Coast Guard investigators that the rig's crew didn't stop drilling or properly notify regulators when a hydraulic leak was discovered in a critical safety device weeks before the blast. Well site leader Ronald Sepulvado testified that he and others aboard the rig believed the leak wouldn't prevent the device, called a blowout preventer, from functioning properly.Frommer reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Phuong Le and David Dishneau in New Orleans, Michael Kunzelman in Kenner, La., and Ben Feller in Washington contributed to this report along with AP energy writer Chris Kahn in New York.