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12th June 2010 19:00
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Obama Bid To Ease Tensions Over Oil Leak
Barack Obama has sought to smooth over tensions with Britain over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying his criticisms of BP are "nothing to do with national identity"
The US President has come under fire in the UK over his attacks on a company he refers to as "British Petroleum", with many feeling they have an anti-British tone.
But in a 30-minute phone call with David Cameron the two men reaffirmed their belief in "the unique strength of the US-UK relationship".
Mr Obama also made clear he recognised BP was a global company, according to a statement released by 10 Downing Street.
The Prime Minister expressed his "sadness" at the ongoing human and environmental damage caused by the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig.
He and the President agreed BP should continue to ensure that "all sensible and reasonable" steps are taken to deal with the disaster.
Earlier BP was ordered by the US Coast Guard to step up its efforts to stop the leak and come up with realistic proposals within the next 48 hours.
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12th June 2010 19:12
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12th June 2010 20:24
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Feds order BP to devise quicker oil collection methods
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Federal authorities have ordered BP to get more aggressive with its plans to recover thousands of barrels of oil spewing from a broken well into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter made public Saturday.
In Friday's letter, Rear Adm. James Watson, the government's on-scene incident manager, gave BP 48 hours to identify and expedite other ways to contain oil, given new estimates that doubled the amount of crude gushing out every day.
Researchers reported this week that up to 40,000 barrels, or 1.7 million gallons, a day may have escaped from the BP well in the 54 days since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.
That would mean almost 100 million gallons have spewed since the rig exploded. That's many times the amount spilled by the supertanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.
"It is clear that additional capacity is urgently needed," Watson said in the letter to Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer.
"I am concerned that your current plans do not provide for maximum mobilization of resources to provide the needed collection capacity consistent with revised flow rates," Watson said. "I am also concerned that your plan does not go far enough to mobilize redundant resources in the event of an equipment failure with one of the vessels or some other unforeseen problem."
BP has captured some of the gushing oil through a containment cap that has been pumping the crude up to a drilling ship for about a week. It collected 15,500 barrels, or 651,000 gallons, on Friday and has been able to remove a total of 104,300 barrels, or about 4.4 million gallons, from Gulf waters so far.
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12th June 2010 23:48
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