In a briefing Wednesday, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said he had no timeline when the relief well would be completed and the bottom kill operation done at the Macondo well

摘要

On CNN Thursday, however, Allen said the bottom kill should be conducted the week of Sep. 6. Allen said, "In the last 40 hours, we've agreed to a sequence of actions that I'm going to direct BP to take, starting with flushing out the current blow-out preventer, actually looking for material that might cause us a problem, and actually move to put a new blowout preventer on and then do the bottom-kill. This will ensure that we can withstand any pressure that may be generated. If all that lines up, we should be looking somewhere at the week after Labor Day."