US | British Petroleum BP: The Tube Is In Oil giant hopes to siphon large part of gushing oil By Polly Davis Doig Posted May 16, 2010 11:19 AM CDT Copied BP chief operating officer for exploration and production Doug Suttles speaks in Venice, La., Sunday, May 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) BP has successfully inserted a pipe into the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well, a source confirmed to the Wall Street Journal, raising hopes that a majority of the leak could be siphoned up to a ship on the surface. A BP spokesman declined comment. Read These Next And ... 23,000 pages of Epstein files are now out. Trump commuted his sentence. Now he's headed back behind bars. Warren Buffett is changing how he's distributing his vast wealth. Breaking Bad creator's new show is wowing critics. Get breaking news in your inbox. What you need to know, as soon as we know it. Sign up Report an error