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Than the deep water horizon rig. the question is what kind of environmental damage will this fire and explosion do to the gulf that has already been through so much? its just one more reminder, nora, of just how risky drilling for oil truly is. >> as you point out just how risky drilling for oil is, whats the news, certainly, with bp and the final kill on that? >> reporter: well, what theyre trying to do today is to lift up the capping stack from the sea floor, the capping stack is what closed i...

Suppression of the pressure inside the capping stack and basically have reached a static condition in the well that allows us to have high confidence that there will be no oil leaking into the environment and we have significantly improved our chances to finally kill the well with the relief wells when that does occur. >> todays success a sharp contrast to the long list of failed attempts to stop the well forethe first 87 days. you remember that list well. its like a list of greatest hits. the b...

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That will controlled by a remotely operated vehicle which will slowly close it incrementally. this is very, very important because we want to measure the amount of closure radially by turns of that choke line valve by an rov simultaneously taking pressure reading. the goal is to slowly dlees down and understand the changes in pressure as we are closing it until that choke line is closed. at that point, there will be no hydrocarbons exiting from the capping stack and well go into a period where w...

Former oil industry executive bob cavnar who now writes about the industry for the huffington post and his own site, the daily hurricane. bob, thanks for your time. >> happy to be here, keith. >> how possible is it that were about to see the last drop of oil leaking into the gulf, from this spill, anyway? >> well, i think were a couple of days from the possibility of that. about an hour ago, they landed what theyre calling the capping stack, which is basically a mini blowout preventer, on top of...

Seafloor. the sequence of events that will take place and start sometime after noon today, we are still i might add just the background, to have that vessel come through a sensitive akao*s -- the acoustic sensors requires everybody to clear out of the area, not only so they can have a very clear way to hear and do their sensing but also there are navigation issues and thats the reason it was done in daylight. we were going to do it yesterday but it was done at daylight. once everything is redepl...

That ring was able to be clamped to this new capping stack that has all of the valves in it. and then all of a sudden this well made aluminum and iron down to a piece of 150,000 pound stack dropped on top of this, bolted together and sealed together, all of a sudden we have the oil coming out the top of this. well, yesterday, and of course today, they started closing the valves, cranking them ever so slowly. they wanted the pressures to stay high so that when the oil finally stopped coming out o...

Closures which will be measured raidally by turns of the valve by an rob, simultaneously taking pressure readings. the goal is to slowly close that down and understand the changes in pressure as we are closing it until that choke line has closed. at that point, there will be no hydrocarbons exiting from the capping stack. and we will go into a period where were going to start taking pressure readings. it will go in basically six, 24, and 40 hour increments depending upon the results. as we said ...

Former oil industry executive, bob cavnar who now wrotes for "the daily hurricane." bob, thanks for your time. >> happy to be here, keith. >> how possible is it that were about to see the last drop of oil leaking into the gulf, from this spill, anyway? >> well, i think were a couple of days from the possibility of that. about an hour ago, they landed what theyre calling the capping stack, which is basically a mini blowout preventer on top of the old blowout preventer, and it looks like by the ro...

When the new, more tightly fitting cap placed on the wellhead, a fraction of the amount of oil that escaped to the gulf of mexico for three months escaped in the water. another sign of seepage has been ruled to be not related but there are still great concerns. >> the leakage is occurring located right about here. there is hydrate formation on the side of the capping stack as we move forward. >> admiral allen showing everyone on top of thecaing stack the new leak of oil has been detected. spotte...