Pressure inside the well has not increased high enough to indicate a successful operation. The new seepage means that the well is more damaged than BP wants people to believe.

July 19, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - History’s greatest environmental disaster caused by British Petroleum's sheer incompetence and negligence is not yet over as latest reports from independent agencies indicate that there are further leaks near the main well 1.6 km below the surface.

On Sunday, Thad Allen, a US government agent in charge of overseeing BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico, told reporters his engineers detected seepage on the ocean floor near the main capped well. The US government wants BP to reopen the cap placed three days ago to allow oil flow once again before the well further sustains further damage.

According to reports pressure inside the well has not increased high enough to indicate a successful operation. The new seepage means that the well is more damaged than BP wants people to believe.

‘Given the current observations from the test, including the detected seep a distance from the well and undetermined anomalies at the well head, monitoring of the seabed is of paramount importance during the test period.

I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed,’ Thad Allen wrote in a letter to the British Petroleum chief manager Bob Dudley on Sunday.

British Petroleum and other US-led western oil companies’ desperate attempts to drill oil from hard to access are the reason behind major environmental disasters in places like the Gulf of Mexico, a pristine and scenic area rich in wildlife. And despite dangers involved in such operations, the US government still wants to drill oil in Alaska, which is an even more environmentally sensitive location.