Cap Work News Today

Having temporarily more oil in the surrounding area. >> gregg: how does the new cap work or at least work differently than the existing one? >> reporter: contrasted with the old cap, the old cap was not a perfect fit when they severed that tube it was a -- it was jagged. the idea is you place this new cap on top that provides a tighter fit potentially if it works according to land funnel all of the oil, 100% of the leaking oil up to ships on the surface tphfplts is only a temporary measure, beca...

Containment, but it will be much more than we have right now and capacity in excess of the flow rate. >> now containment is a good thing, but the idea here is to find a way to cap this well and to shut off that flow. the idea they want to make this hurricane proof. make this well hurricane proof because theyd have to disconnect all those containment devices on the surface if a storm does come through. so being able to make this cap work gives them the capability of not only shuth off at least te...