In addition to "seepage" detected at four sites around the well, small amounts of oil and gas are leaking from the new containment cap, and BP may try to kill the well again. Where's well assassin Pat Campbell? [Washington Post]

Remember the heady days of last weekend, when it seemed that BP had finally capped the leaky oil well? So much for that! Government tests yesterday detected a "seep a distance from the well." [Bloomberg; pic: AP]

Oil is seeping from the sea bed near the Deepwater Horizon well, and the choke valve may need to be reopened.

It's been three days since BP's latest oil well cap was fitted, and so far no evidence of further leakage has been found. BP is hopeful the cap will contain the oil until a relief well is finished next month.

BP claims the new oil well cap is working nearly 48-hours after being fitted. VP Kent Wells said, "At this point there's no evidence that we don't have integrity." Ha! Oh, he was talking about the cap's integrity, not BP's.

Did you all hear that the oil spill is over? BP put a new thing on the leak, so now the oil stopped. Alright! Except: this is just a test, and a lot of things can go wrong.

BP reports there is currently no more oil leaking into the Gulf. About damn time!

BP is currently testing a new cap it hopes will stop the oil leak.

[Testing of BP's magical new containment cap has been put on hold, and oil is again flowing freely into the Gulf. But don't worry, America: The oil company is well prepared for disasters like this one. Image via AP]

Poor BP just can't catch a break. Some US lawmakers now want to investigate whether the company played a role in the early release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al Megrahi, in exchange for lucrative oil contracts in Libya. [CNN]

BP's got a new cap for the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and it might be working—NewsHour tweeted that oil had stopped flowing, but one camera in their live feed seems to show otherwise. [AP]

BP is hot today! Shares in the company are up over 5% in early London trading amid reports that the well cap in the Gulf is working and that another responsible company, ExxonMobil, is planning a hostile takeover. Pic: AP

Oil spill update! BP's awesomeness continues: The company has decided to reduce the payments to around 40,000 "individuals whose claims files were incomplete." But rest easy... BP is also fitting a new well cap and is claiming "progress."

The New York Times has another boring article today about the economic impact of the oil spill. But TMZ has its priorities straight: Why was BP CEO Tony Hayward chilling with a hot woman who wasn't his wife in Texas?

Analysts predicted that it would only be a matter of time before oil from the Gulf spill would make its way up the east coast. On Thursday locals at Crescent Beach, in northeast Florida, found tar balls on the shore.

Cross your fingers: BP and the government will put a new containment cap over The Leak this weekend that could fully contain—not "stop"—the oil. There will, however, be a period of free-flowing oil during the transition.

[Oil companies and conservatives pulled the politically potent jobs card to shut down President Obama's offshore oil drilling moratorium appeal: "Rigs are leaving the gulf, and going to foreign waters." A federal appeals court ruled in their favor. Image: AP]

Why remove the oil beneath the sand along Gulf beaches when you can just let it sit there forever? It's not hurting anyone. That's the thinking of some "experts," at least. What you can't see won't hurt you!

Want to hear some pretty disturbing news? The Gulf of Mexico has at least 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells, and no one has bothered to check if they are leaking. Some even date back to the 1940s.

Tar balls from the BP spill hit beaches around Galveston, Tex. for the first time this weekend. It may have travelled via boat. Or, it has become sentient, and heard Galveston was nice. [Houston Chronicle; picture, of Florida, via AP]