Less than 24 hours after successful injection of cement into the pipe, BP said it did not rule out widening of a new drilling in the deposit that caused the most massive oil spill in the history of the United States .
"There are a lot of oil and gas (prisoner underground) and now we must think about what we do," said the press's director of operations for BP, Doug Suttles.
Too preoccupied with the urgency to plug the well from which escaped from late April to mid-July some 780 million liters of oil, BP teams "have not even thought about what should be done with this deposit, "he said.
Not this aquifer was exploited: the explosion of the platform Deepwater Horizon has in fact occurred on April 20, while engineers were on the final adjustment before the start of production.
But if the decision was made to extract hydrocarbons, in any case the wells who fled for 106 days would be used, has assured Mr. Suttles.
He further explained that the cement injected during five hours Thursday in the well to serve as permanent cap on the oil leak was still dry. Only then will drill two wells branch will resume operation when the bottom kill ".
The relief well will test the success of the cementing or cement the wells from below to order permanently.
The operation of "bottom kill" should enable to close for good on technical chapter of the disaster that has affected five states U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening the rich ecosystem of the area and the local fishing economy and tourism. But success is far from clogging have dispelled the concerns of residents of coastal areas.
"It is impossible to know how this will finally end," said Matt O'Brien, who worked in the shrimp fishery in Venice, Louisiana.
While welcoming the success of the cementation, he worries about the future of the market for seafood from Louisiana. "This can not overcome the atmosphere of uncertainty that remains in the sea," he said.
"There is enormous pressure on BP for him to say that all is well now. But what scares us, me and many people here is the impression that everyone - BP, Coastguard authorities, cleanup crews - will suddenly pack their bags and leave, "adds Todd Goodman, a local official who was also a trailer park. "And then two months later - boom! - Even more oil hits us."
And BP, which continues to try to burnish its blows advertisements in major U.S. media, fails to claim victory.
"There are still a lot of work," Doug Suttles has launched. "There are still raw patties that will happen (on the coast) and will be picked up."
As a result, he said, mass will be held on the Gulf coast to clean soiled beaches and marshes, and the British giant will not shirk its responsibility in the long term.

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