With the once-gushing well capped temporarily for more than a month now, NOAA and the Gulf states have started lifting those restrictions.
The enormous pressure of the shale formation sends oil and gas gushing out the well when it is first fracked.
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David Rainey, BP's former vice president of exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, was charged with withholding information from Congress about the amount of oil that was gushing from the well.
The well is gushing because of the pressure the oil is under in its reservoir 4, 300 metres below the sea bed.
And the proceedings will necessarily slog through all the gory details of the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, forcing those of us who follow the oil industry to suffer flashbacks of the horrific explosion, oil-soaked beaches and those endless hours keeping half an eye on the submarine video feed of oil gushing from the Macondo well.
But over the weekend, BP and Anadarko, a Texas-based oil company, kind of traded barbs over whether Anadarko should be partly responsible because they own 25 percent of the well that is currently gushing.
As much as 40, 000 barrels (1.7m gallons) of oil a day may have been gushing from a blown-out well before a cap was put on it on 3 June, capturing some of the leak.
Walking through Oceaneering's warehouse full of boxy robots on stilts, Campbell says people don't realize how far these machines have to travel to monitor the oil that's gushing into the Gulf every day -- or how well-equipped they must be.
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