Engineer drilling relief well to permanently seal oil spill feeling pressure in final few feet
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The man responsible for guiding the relief well into the blown-out well that gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 85 days says he's feeling the pressure as the final few feet of digging approaches.
In an e-mail Tuesday to The Associated Press, engineer John Wright says there's always drama in the delicate final steps of digging a relief well.
But Wright also pointed out he's dug 40 wells without missing. He compares it to golf, saying the more you practice, the luckier you get.
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Wright will guide the relief well drill, about the size of a grapefruit, into the target, which is less than half the size of a dartboard. BP says that could happen as soon as Friday.
Wright says stopping the oil before the relief well finished has taken some of the pressure off him.