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The kill line to the helix producer and choke line to the q 4000. okay? last week as you remember we removed the stub of the riser pipe and we put in what we called a flange spool. on top of that what will happen, which was significant, is weve now seeded the capping stack here and basically it has three rams, a mini blowout preventer, also has a kill line and a choke line. okay? so you basically have a small bop on top of the larger bop that is legacy to the deepwater horizon. here is how we in...

Suck all the oil out of this thing. that would be fantastic. they dont even want to do that. theyre going farther than that. theyre going to fire these valves to stop this oil from coming out altogether. >> and those three ram that is theyve got, theyre calling it a three-ram cap, that is very crucial. they have to do it slowly, right? >> yes. and one at a time. theyre going to pretend and bring up the volume, bring up the pressure from this cap down here, this b.o.p., slowly so we dont blow the...

Moment maneuvering this thing into position today to try to get straight on. this is when they were looking at it above sea as they were practicing in this picture. at last report, it was just a couple hundred feet from touchdown. this thing is big. its 150,000 pounds of metal. its over 10, 12 feet tall. could take up to a week to install properly. according to clean-up officials, it will provide the most accurate data yet on the oil flow rate. its basically like a small b.o.p. day 84 of the oil...

Ecologically? is that as crazy as it sounds? >> in my view, it is. as you know, im a supporter of the moratorium, purely for safety reasons. because these rigs use the exact same blowout preventers that were used on the deepwater horizon that failed so tragically. nobody can tell you why that b.o.p. failed. going back and doing the same thing, to me is just crazy. plus, they have every asset they have deployed now trying to collect this oil. if something else goes wrong, its a gigantic catastrop...

The magnet balls. >> essentially youre clogging this thing up. you said 75% of the flow -- is it possible to cut it all off or would you not want to do that? >> that was the whole idea. as you apply materials, can you control the stoppage? and you can. what you see there now is weve added enough pipe there so that we can add more materials and in this case, we reduced it to 75%. but if we were to add more pipe and more material, we would bring it down to a very controllable trickle. >> this is o...

Understand right now. that has taken care of 238,000 barrels of oil. and 460,000 barrels have been siphoned off the leak down at that b.o.p. at the bottom as they use the q4000 and the lmrp cap. but storms in the gulf are delaying the plans to beef up the siphoning operation. they have one floating riser that will be able to work well during a hurricane situation. they also have flexible connections with that q4000 thats also attach add t the moment. bp says it has spent $300 million in just the...

The explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the leak was studied, observed, meas...

Horizon, several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the le...

And fix it. >> anything less than that, you know, might have led or probably led to a major failure of the well and the results are well known. >> reporter: back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous leak, that the blowout preventer was at possible risk for failure. it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it you have to pull the whole b.o.p. which will shut down production....

Well and the results are well known. >> reporter: back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous leak, that the blowout preventer was at possible risk for failure. it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it you have to pull the whole b.o.p. which will shut down production. from my understanding they shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> reporter: tyrone, 11 people dead...