BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that the company is ramping up efforts to contains the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Reporting its first success in containing the massive Gulf oil leak nearly a month after it started, BP says oil and natural gas are flowing via a mile-long pipe to a ship at the surface. Full story
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says BP had a problem with its latest attempt to stop a massive Gulf oil spill but is continuing the effort to stick a mile-long tube into the gusher. Full story
Doug Suttles, COO at BP, discusses new, untested techniques the company is planning to use in an effort to stem the Gulf Coast oil leak following the failed attempt of the larger dome.