WASHINGTON – A gulf of Mexico Oil well is leaking but surprisingly does seem to be getting damaged even after 2 days have passed after performing pressure tests after placing a new sealing cap on it, said BP on Saturday.”We’re feeling more confident that we have integrity,” said BP senior vice president Kent Wells. “At this point there’s not evidence that we don’t have integrity”.

“That’s very good and the fact that the pressure continues to rise is giving us more and more confidence as we are getting through the test.”

On Thursday, the leak was closed by BP by placing a cap over it. And thereon began the continuous series of pressure tests to make sure the leakage does not happen again.

Although the tests were supposed to be completed much before, they finally came to closure on Saturday afternoon

“There was always the provision that under certain circumstances the test could be extended,” he said. “The longer the test goes, the more confidence we have in it.”

If the tests fail, then BP may come back on the Containment System, which would at least prevent the oil from reaching into the sea.

The Containment system has been planned over and over again to captivate the oil from the leakage, but wells said that some of it could leak into the sea during the procedure.

“If we do decide at any point… we want to open the well back up, initially we will need to flow back into the Gulf for some period of time, relatively short period of time, to bring the pressure down in the well so we can go back into our collection system,” he said.