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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. >> back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew that the bop, blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order for it to be taken care of, you need to pull the whole bop, which would shut down production. from my understanding, they shut down one p...

Solution is to immediately close off the well, raise the blowout preventer, find out whats wrong, 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 bop, the blowout preventer, was at possible risk for failure. and it was taken care of? >> it ...

Preventer, find out whats wrong 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. >> back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous leak, that the bop, the blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order for it to be taken care of, you need to pull the...

The other, says university of texas petroleum engineer, tad patzek, is designed as its immediate backup. >> i dont think theres any discussion of that basic fact. and the basic fact is that you have to do whatever it takes to fix fully the blow-out preventer as soon as you can. >> he says the solution is to immediately close off the well, raise the blow-out preventer, find out whats wrong and fix it. >> anything less than that, you know, might have led or probably led to a major failure of the w...

Might have gotten worse treatment as far as from the staff, just because im such a -- i was such a high-profile inmate that i couldnt -- i couldnt get anything special. >> larry: where did you serve your time? >> forest city, arkansas. >> larry: why there? >> ask the b.o.p.? >> larry: federal prison? >> yeah. federal prison. >> larry: what was your sentence? >> a year and a day. >> larry: that doesnt sound like a lot for all that you were carrying. >> well, through the blessings of god and also ...

Could be accurate? huge disparate here? there couldnt be somewhere in between 5,000 and 70,000? >> you can look at the amount of the oil coming to the surface on satellites. we can measure the pressure drops at the top of the b.o.p. and whats coming out, that photograph needs a little ruler next to it to give you the sense of the size. is photograph is going to make it look bigger than it physically is. again, you take into account the expansion nature of the gas and the crude, a lot of it evapo...

Then you have a very super cooled environment down there. that caused the hydrates to be made in this old big cone. theyre going -- this new cone, this hot hat is not going to be nearly as efficient. its kind of a cone thats going to catch it as its coming out. rather than encase the entire bop or blowoff preventer, not going to try to encase it. theyre going to try to set it very close to it and allow the oil and the gas to be sucked? >> before it could -- the temperature could change that it w...

Work. no one ever expected that. >> reporter: dudley rejected the claim by a university professor that this riser is leaking up to 70,000 barrels oil a day, far more than bps estimate of 5,000 which theyre still sticking to. >> that number is not acrate at all, 70,000 barrels a day. >> reporter: theres no way it could be accurate? theres a huge disparity here, it couldnt be somewhere between 5,000 and 70,000? >> you can look at the amount of oil coming up on the surface of the satellite. we can ...

Comment casings and a mechanism called the "blow-out preventer," or b.o.p. all failed in some way in succession or the same time to do their jobs. halliburton installed the cagi cagings. >> the casings shoe was cemented 24 hours prior to the tragedy. >> transocean owned the well. >> there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, the casing or both. without a file your of one of the elements, the explode could not have occurred. >> reporter: b.p. was the wells primary operator. >> why did...

During this hearing. first off, that this well before the explosion may have failed two crucial pressure tests. the other thing, that the safety shutoff device, that blowout preventer, weve heard referred to as the bop here in the last couple of days, was not working properly before the explosion. listen to what congressman henry waxman who is the chairman of this full committee, said at the beginning of this hearing. >> transocean, one of the worlds largest operator of drilling rigs, says it ha...