BP turns attention to surface clean-up

WITH BP’s leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone’s lips is: where is all the oil?

For three long months, a massive slick threatened the shorelines of Louisiana and other southern US Gulf Coast states as BP tried everything from top hats to junk shots and giant domes to stanch the toxic sludge.

A cap stopped the flow on July 15 and now, thanks to frantic efforts to skim and burn crude on the surface, the difficulty is finding oil rather than cleaning it up.