DeepWater Horizon Disaster - LMRP Containment Operation Deployed

BP announced that oil and gas is being received onboard the Discoverer Enterprise following the successful placement of a containment cap on top of the Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer (BOP#. This follows the cutting and removal of the riser pipe from the top of the BOP's lower marine riser package #LMRP). It is expected to take one or more days for flow rates of oil and gas to stabilize and it is not possible at this stage to estimate how much oil and gas will be captured by this containment system.