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Down to reverse the flow of the oil. the admiral repeating again today that to be safe the gusher will have to be plugged from two directions. think of the relief well as bottom kill. bp still refusing to say what they will be doing with the relief wells. kent wells saying, we need to take each step at a time. clearly we need to pump cement. if we do it from the top we might alter what we do with the well. the ultimate objective is getting this well permanently sealed. admiral allen responding, ...

From venice, louisiana, michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, and, craig, just to make sure, they are going to continue on what has always been their main goal and that to plug the reservoir from the bottom floor, this bottom kill, the final plug in this, should get under way in the next few days of them cementing that reservoir from the bottom. and hopefully theyll have that finished by mid-august. in the meantime, as you mentioned, doug suttles, just announcing hell be returning t...

The effectiveness of the cement they finished pouring down the well, needing to wait at least a day for the compound to set. it doesnt really dry. todays procedure coming a day after they pumped enough mud down to reverse the flow of the oil. admiral thad allen having given his permission for the cement only if bp continued with the digging of the relief wells. the gusher will have to be plugged from two directions. think of the relief well as bottom kill. bp still refusing to say what they will...

So-called bottom kill. more mud and cement will be injected into bedrock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor. this as new estimates are out at the bp price tag. the company could be fined as much as $21 billion if it is found to have committed gross negligence or willful misconduct. the fine could drop to $17.6 billion if the government credits the company for the oil it has already recovered. joining us once again tonight, former oil executive, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry at dailyhurr...

They pump it down as far as they can get it to essentially plug this thing from the top. now, the relief well still going on, being dug from the angles, trying to intercept the well. but for right now, getting this mud down, the pressure is holding, things are working. static kill is working. we have been disappointed so many times in the past about thinking things might work, would work, and they didnt work. but right now, there is a lot of optimism about this effort. again, its hard to get kin...

So-called bottom kill. more mud and cement will be injected into bedrock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor. this as new estimates are out at the bp price tag. the company could be fined as much as $21 billion if it is found to have committed gross negligence or willful misconduct. the fine could drop to $17.6 billion if the government credits the company for the oil it has already recovered. joining us once again tonight, former oil executive, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry at dailyhurr...

Different points. the yet to be finished relief wells will be used to execute a shof called bottom kill. more mud and cement will be injected into bedrock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor. this as new estimates are out at the bp price tag. the company could be fined as much as $21 billion if it is confined to commit gross negligence or willful misconduct. the fine could drop to $17.6 billion if the government credits the company for the oil it has already recovered. joining us once again tonight,...

The next phase, the bottom kill or final kill as many are calling it. with the relief wells they have bern working on for the last few months, they are hoping to put a cement plug in there as early as thursday that could be finished by mid august. >> michelle, thank you very much. the government has reopened patches of fishing waters around louisiana and even declared seafood from some parts of the gulf safe to eat. both the fda and state of louisiana have been testing the fish and barely found ...

>> reporter: were hoping this will be the beginning of the end of making sure that that well is capped for good, no more leaking from that well. as you mentioned, theyre trying to get underway with the injekation tests, that is going to pump some light oil into that blown out well down the throat of that well so to speak, lethal injection that they hope will give them an idea on whether or not they can push the crude back into the reservoir, that will give them an indication of how much pressure...

Almost there. in fact, theyre just about ready. theyre casing and cementing the liner into that. and then what theyre going to try and do is, theyre going to do something called bottom kill. theyre going to pump things into the -- into one of those pipes that theyve dug. and push it up. and that should be the end of this well, we hope, once and for all. now, one of bps biggest critics in congress, congressman ed marquet, has continued his claims that bp went overboard in its use of dispersants. ...