BP began collecting crude oil on Wednesday from a second ghd glätteisen containment system that the company hopes will help stem the thousands of barrels escaping from its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, an amount that scientists said could be as high as 60,000 barrels a day. The company is siphoning the ghd rettetang oil through a series of pipes and hoses to a ship, which will then clean and burn the oil and gas mixture in a processing device. The method BP has been using since June 3, a containment cap, has been able to collect about 15,000 barrels of crude oil a day. But based on new estimates of the flow rate released Tuesday, that may be only about one-quarter of the amount leaking daily. Adm. Thad W. ghd planchas Allen of the Coast Guard, the national commander of the spill, said BP was also developing a new system to replace the current containment devices, one that will be more flexible in the event of a hurricane. This system will also be able to collect more oil if those estimates increase, with a maximum capacity of 80,000 barrels.

President ghd glattejern Obama's first address from the Oval Office, an 18-minute speech about the oil spill that was carried in prime time by 11 networks on Tuesday night, attracted 32 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Company. Viewership was 33 percent lower than that for Mr. Obama's first State of the Union address, in ghd straightener January, and down by 21 percent from his last prime-time speech, in December, about the war in Afghanistan.

Under intense pressure from the Obama administration, BP agreed Wednesday to create an independent $20 billion ghd hair straightener fund to pay claims arising from the worst oil spill in American history. The company also said it would suspend paying dividends to portefeuille its shareholders for the rest of the year and would compensate oil field workers for lost wages. The compensation fund will be run by Kenneth R. Feinberg, the mediator who oversaw the compensation sell lacoste polo fund for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. SWP