Cleaning up: a skimmer gets to work as a dispersant plane flies overhead. The US Coast Guard has now said it may burn off some of the oil leaking from the Macondo well
Image courtesy of AP Photo/Patrick Semansky/AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Spill costing BP $6m a day
BP is spending more than $6 million per day to contain an oil spill from the
Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico, while efforts continue to bring the
well under control after an explosion on the Transocean semi-submersible rig
Deepwater Horizon.
Noah Brenner, Anthony Guegel, Rob Watts & Anthea Pitt
27 April 2010 22:02 GMT