P-23 GULF OIL POISON DISASTER

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
PART 21-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 22-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-22-poison-oil-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 MUST 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 103 OF THE POISON DISASTER SAT JULY 31,10.

ITS DAY 104 OF THE POISON DISASTER SUN AUGUST 01,10.

ITS DAY 105 OF THE POISON DISASTER MON AUGUST 02,10.

ITS DAY 106 OF THE POISON DISASTER TUE AUG 3,10

ITS DAY 107 WED AUG 4,2010 OF THE POISON DISASTER

ITS DAY 108 OF THE POISON DISASTER THU AUG 5,10

ITS DAY 112 OF THE POISON DISASTER MON AUG 9,10.THE RESULTS.

Oiled crabs stoke fears spill is tainting food web By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer 3:00PM AUG 9,10

BARATARIA, La. – To assess how heavy a blow the BP oil spill has dealt the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are closely watching a staple of the seafood industry and primary indicator of the ecosystem's health: the blue crab.Weeks ago, before engineers pumped in mud and cement to plug the gusher, scientists began finding specks of oil in crab larvae plucked from waters across the Gulf coast.The government said last week that three-quarters of the spilled oil has been removed or naturally dissipated from the water. But the crab larvae discovery was an ominous sign that crude had already infiltrated the Gulf's vast food web — and could affect it for years to come.It would suggest the oil has reached a position where it can start moving up the food chain instead of just hanging in the water, said Bob Thomas, a biologist at Loyola University in New Orleans. Something likely will eat those oiled larvae ... and then that animal will be eaten by something bigger and so on.Tiny creatures might take in such low amounts of oil that they could survive, Thomas said. But those at the top of the chain, such as dolphins and tuna, could get fatal megadoses.Marine biologists routinely gather shellfish for study. Since the spill began, many of the crab larvae collected have had the distinctive orange oil droplets, said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

In my 42 years of studying crabs I've never seen this, Perry said.She wouldn't estimate how much of the crab larvae are contaminated overall, but said about 40 percent of the area they are known to inhabit has been affected by oil from the spill.Tulane University researchers are investigating whether the splotches also contain toxic chemical dispersants that were spread to break up the oil but have reached no conclusions, biologist Caz Taylor said.If large numbers of blue crab larvae are tainted, their population is virtually certain to take a hit over the next year and perhaps longer, scientists say.How large the die-off would be is unclear, Perry said. An estimated 207 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since an April 20 drilling rig explosion triggered the spill, and thousands of gallons of dispersant chemicals have been dumped.Scientists will be focusing on crabs because they're a keystone species that play a crucial role in the food web as both predator and prey, Perry said.Richard Condrey, a Louisiana State University oceanographer, said the crabs are a living repository of information on the health of the environment.Named for the light-blue tint of their claws, the crabs have thick shells and 10 legs, allowing them to swim and scuttle across bottomlands. As adults, they live in the Gulf's bays and estuaries amid marshes that offer protection and abundant food, including snails, tiny shellfish, plants and even smaller crabs. In turn, they provide sustenance for a variety of wildlife, from redfish to raccoons and whooping cranes.Adults could be harmed by direct contact with oil and from eating polluted food. But scientists are particularly worried about the vulnerable larvae.That's because females don't lay their eggs in sheltered places, but in areas where estuaries meet the open sea. Condrey discovered several years ago that some even deposit offspring on shoals miles offshore in the Gulf.

The larvae grow as they drift with the currents back toward the estuaries for a month or longer. Many are eaten by predators, and only a handful of the 3 million or so eggs from a single female live to adulthood.But their survival could drop even lower if the larvae run into oil and dispersants. Crabs are very abundant. I don't think we're looking at extinction or anything close to it,said Taylor, one of the researchers who discovered the orange spots. Still, crabs and other estuary-dependent species such as shrimp and red snapper could feel the effects of remnants of the spill for years, Perry said.There could be some mortality, but how much is impossible to say at this point, said Vince Guillory, biologist manager with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.Perry, Taylor and Condrey will be among scientists monitoring crabs for negative effects such as population drop-offs and damage to reproductive capabilities and growth rates.Crabs are big business in the region. In Louisiana alone, some 33 million pounds are harvested annually, generating nearly $300 million in economic activity, Guillory said.But fishermen who can make a six-figure income off crabs in a good year now are now idled — and worried about the future.If they'd let us go out and fish today, we'd probably catch crabs, said Glen Despaux, 37, who sets his traps in Louisiana's Barataria Bay. But what's going to happen next year, if this water is polluted and it's killing the eggs and the larvae? I think it's going to be a long-term problem.

Work remains even with BP leak plugged, oil fading By HARRY R. WEBER and GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writers - 2PM AUG 4,10

NEW ORLEANS – BP claimed a key milestone Wednesday in the effort to plug its blown-out well as a government report said much of the spilled oil is gone, heartening officials who have taken heat during the tricky cleanup but leaving some Gulf Coast residents skeptical.BP PLC reported that mud forced down the well overnight was pushing the crude back down to its source for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers.And a federal report being released Wednesday indicated that only about a quarter of the spilled oil remains in the Gulf and is degrading quickly, with the rest having been contained, cleaned up or otherwise disappeared.President Barack Obama, while noting that people's lives have been turned upside down, declared in Washington that the operation was finally close to coming to an end.The containment effort isn't over. Crews performing the so-called static kill effort overnight now must decide whether to follow up by pumping cement down the broken wellhead. Federal officials said they won't declare complete victory until they get into the well from the other end, and that won't happen for weeks.This job will not be complete until we finish the relief well and pump mud and cement in through the bottom, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill response, said at a news briefing in Washington.Nearly three-quarters of the oil — more than 152 million gallons — has been collected at the well by a temporary containment cap, been cleaned up or chemically dispersed, or naturally deteriorated, evaporated or dissolved, according to a report by the Interior Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.It was captured. It was skimmed. It was burned. It was contained. Mother Nature did her part, White House energy adviser Carol Browner said on NBC's Today show.

That leaves nearly 53 million gallons in the Gulf. The amount remaining — or washed up on the shore — is still nearly five times the size of the 11 million-gallon Exxon Valdez spill, which wreaked environmental havoc in Alaska in 1989.About a quarter of the oil evaporated or dissolved in the warm Gulf waters, the same way sugar dissolves in water, federal officials said. Another one-sixth naturally dispersed because of the way it leaked from the well. Another one-sixth was burned, skimmed or dispersed using controversial chemicals.Nearly 207 million gallons leaked from the well in total, according to government estimates. The cap held back nearly 35 million gallons.The report's calculations were based on daily operational reports, estimates by scientists and various analyses by experts. The government acknowledged it made certain assumptions about how oil dissolves in water naturally over time.

Officials, while encouraged by the report, stressed that the fight wasn't over.

Less oil on the surface does not mean that there isn't oil still in the water column or that our beaches and marshes aren't still at risk, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco cautioned in a news release.A Florida State University oceanographer who has long been tracking the spill, and who early on challenged the government's low estimates of its size, called the report spin.There's some science here, but mostly it's spin, and it breaks my heart to see them do it,said the oceanographer, Ian McDonald.This is an unfortunate report,he said.I'm afraid this continues a track record of doubtful information distributed through NOAA.Charter boat captain Randy Boggs, of Orange Beach, Ala., said Wednesday he has a hard time believing BP's claims of success with the static kill and similarly dismissed the idea that only a quarter of the oil remains in the Gulf. There are still boats out there every day working, finding turtles with oil on them and seeing grass lines with oil in it, said Boggs, 45. Certainly all the oil isn't accounted for. There are millions of pounds of tar balls and oil on the bottom.In the fishing town of Yscloskey, La., crabber Oliver Rudesill, 28, said he has been out of business like most of his buddies, some of whom are doing cleanup for BP instead but are earning about a quarter of what they do fishing. As soon as BP gets this oil out of sight, they'll get it out of mind, and we'll be left to deal with it alone,he said Tuesday.

At the entrance to Gulf Islands National Seashore at Pensacola Beach, Fla., Don Allen still wasn't expecting to sell many snow cones or Italian sausages from his food truck. I don't know where it went if it's not out there, said Allen, who had to lay off his son because business has been so slow as tourists abandoned beaches over the summer.It's all just numbers, and it has changed so often.BP applied nearly 2 million gallons of a chemical dispersant to the oil as it spewed from the well, an attempt to break it into droplets so huge slicks wouldn't tarnish shorelines and coat marine animals, and to encourage it to degrade more quickly. In Washington on Wednesday, lawmakers pressed scientists to explain what effects the chemical, whose long-term effects have been questioned, will have on the Gulf's ecosystem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., called use of the chemicals a grand experiment that didn't guarantee limited damage from the spill or make clear whether greater harm was possible. The 75-ton cap placed on the well in July had been keeping the oil bottled up inside over the past three weeks but was considered only a temporary measure. BP and the Coast Guard wanted to plug up the hole with a column of heavy drilling mud and cement to seal it off more securely. The static kill — also known as bullheading — involved slowly pumping the mud from a ship down lines running to the top of the ruptured well a mile below. A previous, similar effort failed in May when the mud couldn't overcome the unstemmed flow of oil.Workers stopped pumping mud in after about eight hours of static kill work and were monitoring the well to ensure it remained stable, BP said.Weber reported from aboard the Q4000. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Dina Cappiello and Seth Borenstein in Washington, Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., Jennifer Kay in Pensacola Beach, Fla., and Jason Dearen in Yscloskey, La.

BP oil well gushed 4.9 million barrels: US
Mon Aug 2, 7:21 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US government on Monday said BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico gushed an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil, making it the largest accidental oil spill of all time.Overall, the scientific teams estimate that approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil have been released from the well, the joint response command that includes BP and the US government said in a statement describing the new estimate.Not all of this oil and gas flowed into the ocean; containment activities conducted by BP under US direction captured approximately 800,000 barrels of oil prior to the capping of the well, they said.The 4.9 million barrels is at the upper end of an earlier official estimate, which said that between 3.0 million and 5.3 million barrels had spewed from the well between April 20, when the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, and July 15, when a cap placed over the wellhead was finally sealed.The refined estimates are the most accurate to date and have an uncertainty of plus or minus 10 percent, according to the statement.The 4.1 million uncontained barrels estimated to have spewed into the water make the spill the biggest accidental oil disaster in the history of the petroleum industry, and second only to the intentional release of crude by Iraqi forces during the 1991 Gulf War.

The previous largest accidental spill was a 1979 disaster -- also in the Gulf of Mexico -- in which 3.3 million barrels gushed from the Ixtoc-1 well after an explosion on a rig operated by Mexican state oil company Pemex.The BP spill revision was based on new pressure readings, data and analysis of oil reservoir modeling studied by teams comprised of federal and independent US scientists, including a Department of Energy team of scientists led by President Barack Obama's energy secretary, Steven Chu, the statement said.The revised estimates are part of this administration's ongoing commitment to ensuring that we have the most accurate information possible, Chu said.When the well first ruptured, 62,000 barrels of oil per day were leaking from the well, beyond the 35,000 to 60,000 barrels most recently estimated by US authorities, but the flow rate decreased to 53,000 barrels per day just before the well was capped, the statement said.As a result of depletion of the hydrocarbon reservoir, the daily flow rate decreased over the 87 days prior to the well's closure, according to the statement.The new figures are based in part on analysis of high-resolution videos taken by remotely operated underwater vehicles, acoustic technologies, measurements of oil collected by vessels on the surface, and readings of pressure measurements inside the containment cap.Government scientists will continue to analyze data and may in time be able to further refine this estimate,the statement said.

BP: Upcoming kill attempt might do the trick alone By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer - AUG 2,10

NEW ORLEANS – After insisting for months that a pair of costly relief wells were the only surefire way to kill the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials said Monday they may be able to do it just with lines running from a ship to the blown-out well a mile below.As crews planned testing to determine whether to proceed with a static kill to pump mud and perhaps cement down the throat of the well, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said if it's successful the relief wells may not be needed, after all, to do the same weeks later from the bottom.The primary relief well, near completion, will still be finished and could be used simply to ensure the leak is plugged, Wells said.Even if we were to pump the cement from the top, we will still continue on with the relief well and confirm that the well is dead,he said. Either way,we want to end up with cement in the bottom of the hole.

Government officials and company executives have long said the wells, which can cost about $100 million each, may be the only way to make certain the oil is contained to its vast undersea reservoir. A federal task force says about 172 million gallons of oil made it into the Gulf between April and mid-July, when a temporary cap bottled up all the oil.That number is on the high end of recent estimates that anywhere from 92 million to 184 million gallons had gushed into the sea.The company began drilling the primary, 18,000-foot relief well May 2, 12 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and killed 11 workers, and a second backup well May 16. The first well is now only about 100 feet from the target, and Wells said it could reach it as early as Aug. 11.Precisely what the relief wells will do remains to be seen given what we learn from the static kill, BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said. Can't predict it for certain.Retired Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill response, said Monday that the focus now is on making sure the static kill is successful. But he cautioned that federal officials don't see it as the end all, be all until we get the relief well done.One of the biggest variables is whether the area called the annulus, which is between the inner piping and the outer casing, has sprung an oil leak. Engineers probably won't be able to answer that question until they drill in from the bottom, he said.Everyone would like to have this thing over as soon as possible, Allen said, adding: We don't know the condition of the well until we start pushing mud into it.The company's statements Monday might signal that it is more concerned than it has acknowledged about debris found in the relief well after it was briefly capped as Tropical Storm Bonnie passed last week, said Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor.

Plus, trying to seal the well from the top gives BP two shots at ending the disaster, Overton said.Frankly, if they can shut it off from the top and it's a good, permanent seal, I'll take it,Overton said. A bird in the hand at this point is a good thing with this deal.Before the effort can begin, engineers must probe the broken blowout preventer with an oil-like liquid to decide whether it can handle the static kill process. They had hoped to begin the hours-long test Monday but delayed it until Tuesday after a small leak was discovered in the hydraulic control system.

The static kill is meant as a bit of insurance for the crews who have spent months fighting the oil spill. The only thing keeping oil from blowing into the Gulf at the moment is the experimental cap, which has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent.BP and federal officials have managed to contain large parts of the spill through skimmers, oil-absorbant boom and chemical dispersants meant to break up the oil.Federal regulators have come under fire from critics who say that BP was allowed to use excessive amounts of the dispersants, but government officials counter that they have helped dramatically cut the use of the chemicals since late May. The Environmental Protection Agency released a study Monday concluding that when mixed with oil, chemical dispersants used to break up the crude in the Gulf are no more toxic to aquatic life than oil alone.Associated Press writers Jeffrey Collins and Harry R. Weber in New Orleans and Matthew Daly in Washington contributed to this report.

Investigators blast BP for liberal dispersant use By H. JOSEF HEBERT and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writers - 12:50PM SUN AUG 1,10

NEW ORLEANS – As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed against the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used.The Coast Guard routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of the chemical per day to break up the oil in the Gulf, despite a federal directive to use the dispersant rarely, the investigators said. The Coast Guard approved 74 waivers over a 48-day period after the Environmental Protection Agency order, according to documents reviewed by the investigators. Only in a few cases did the government scale back BP's request.Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., released a letter Saturday that said instead of complying with the EPA restriction, BP often carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it.

Officials for BP and the spill response effort did not immediately comment.

The chemical dispersant was effective at breaking up the oil into small droplets to be consumed more easily by bacteria, but the long-term effects to aquatic life are unknown. That environmental uncertainty has led to several spats between BP and the government over the use of dispersants on the surface and deep underwater when oil was spewing out of the well.BP's apparently generous use of dispersants helps explain why so little oil has been spotted on the surface, said Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.Whether the benefits of dispersants outweigh the possible risks is a debatable point,he said. They've protected the Gulf Coast's fragile wetlands from heavier bands of oil but are capable of killing shrimp and crab eggs and larvae.That's a debate with no right answer,he said.A temporary cap has held the gusher in check for more than two weeks, and engineers were planning to start as early as Monday on an effort to help plug the well for good. The procedure, dubbed the static kill, involves pumping mud and possibly cement into the blown-out well through the temporary cap.If it works, it will take less time to complete a similar procedure using a relief well that is nearly complete. That effort, known as a bottom kill, should be the last step to sealing the well.Before the static kill can take place, however, debris needs to be cleared from one of the relief wells. The debris fell in the bottom of the relief well when crews had to evacuate the site last week because of Tropical Storm Bonnie.Companies working to plug the disaster for good are engaged in a billion-dollar blame game. But the workers for BP, Halliburton and Transocean say the companies' adversarial relationship before Congress isn't a distraction at the site of the April 20 rig explosion, where Transocean equipment rented by BP is drilling relief wells that Halliburton will pump cement through to choke the oil well permanently.Simply, we are all too professional to allow disagreements between BP and any other organization to affect our behaviors,Ryan Urik, a BP well safety adviser working on the Development Driller II, which is drilling a backup relief well, said in an e-mail last week.

The roles of the three companies in the kill efforts are much the same as they were on the Deepwater Horizon, the exploratory rig that blew up, killing 11 workers. The Justice Department has opened civil and criminal investigations, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed, and congressional investigators are probing the blast and its aftermath.BP is trying to move forward from the disaster, which sent anywhere from 94 million to 184 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf, announcing once the cap was finally in place that its vilified chief executive, Tony Hayward, would be leaving in October.The are other signs of change in the Gulf. State waters closed by the spill have slowly reopened to fishing, most recently in Florida, where regulators on Saturday reopened a 23-mile stretch of Escambia County shoreline to harvest saltwater fish. The area was closed June 14 and remains closed to the shrimp and crab harvesting pending additional testing. Oysters, clams and mussels were never included in the closure.In Alabama, the Department of Public Health lifted all swimming advisories for the Gulf of Mexico. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles planned a boat tour of recovery efforts Sunday off Venice, La.Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured three offshore oil rigs last week, his most extensive trip since the unprecedented shutdown of offshore drilling. Salazar told The Associated Press, which accompanied him, that he's gathering information to decide whether to revise or even lift the ban, which is scheduled to last until Nov. 30. Business groups and Gulf Coast political leaders say the shutdown is crippling the oil and gas industry and costing thousands of jobs, even aboard rigs not operated by BP PLC. The freeze is like punishing the whole class when a student does something wrong, oil executive John Breed told Salazar during a tour of the Noble Danny Adkins, one of the rigs Salazar visited Wednesday. Salazar told the AP he believes the industry-wide moratorium imposed after BP's Gulf oil spill was the correct call.I think we're in the right direction,he said, adding that the ultimate goal is to allow deepwater operations to resume safely.We're not there yet,he said.Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Matt Daly on the Gulf of Mexico; Harry R. Weber in Port Sulphur, La.; Greg Bluestein in New Orleans; and Ray Henry in Atlanta.