Long-term environmental, industry and legal impacts from spill remain unknownThe "nightmare well" is dead. But the Gulf Coast's bad dream is far from over.
Federal officials declared Sunday that the well where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded had finally been killed . Workers drilled a relief well into the damaged one and sealed it with cement.
Its official end came 11 years after Texaco first sank an exploratory well near that same spot 50 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, then moved on after finding it unprofitable. When BP PLC purchased the rights to explore for oil there in 2008, it held an in-house well-naming contest.
The winning team chose the name Macondo, after the mythical town from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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The Obama mania media said it was all gone.
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