BP Plc.'s containment cap over its stricken Gulf of Mexico well is now collecting about 1,000 barrels per day, the top U.S. official overseeing the cleanup effort said on Friday.The collection rate is a small portion of the 19,000 barrels per day that the U.S. government has estimated could be gushing from the well, but it should increase as BP closes vents to trap more oil, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told reporters in a conference call."Sometime later today we'll probably be able to get ... an approximation of how much oil we are capturing," Allen said.(Reporting by Kristen Hays and Chris Baltimore, editing by Alan Elsner)News posted by www.newsinfoline.com
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