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Close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time as we intended to do. just to let you know what happened, this is the choke line off of the capping stack. as you know this, comes out of the assembly and goes up. if youve seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curved pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here at a flange, and theres an assembly where this meets together. this is where the leakage was discovere...

Bob cavnar who now writes for his own website, 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 rov feeds that wer...

Bore that might bring oil or hydro carbons into what we call the geological formation potentially to the sub sea floor. some questions were raised yesterday about the implications of leakage and how that interfaced with the test as we start to shut down the valves and increase pressure in the capping stack. ill go over that process in a minute. what we might expect, even low probability, high consequence outcomes. as a result of that, we asked bp to go back and give us some more information on t...

Spill in the gulf of mexico. bob cav nar was an oil industry executive. bob, how did they get it to stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they closed the last valve, the choke valve in just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was made. the feed is obviously a little delayed. it was still flowing at that point, but it did stop. i just saw a good shot of the entire stack from the top of the old blowout preventer to the top of the new capping stack. it is indeed sh...

Could do. >> some practical questions of what exactly they would be asking us to do and what would be our ability to inquire as to, you know, a conversation that might have alleged to have taken place between a private company, a government and another devulg government. >> reporter: bp acknowledges it did talk to the government in 2007 about what it calls the slow progress of the prisoner transfer agreement and that a delay could "have a negative impact on british commercial interests" includin...

Seven days from now, the entire replacement will be done. once they finish unbolting the flange, they go into a process where they take the actual permanent seal, the capping stack, and its a complicated maneuver. youll see a lot of activity by the underwater robot on the sea floor. you can see a lot of activity in the coming days. its going to be crucial. >> vivian, im probably asking dumb dumb questions. its confusing to me given i havent seen this process happen before. few of us have. when w...

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Accommodating of racist memories. finally, ill tell you why i think the claim the new black panthers intimidated people into voting for barack obama makes no sense. bob cavnar was an oil industry executive. bob, how did they get it to stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they closed the the last involve, the choke valve just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was çmad. the feed is obviously a little delayed. it was still flowing at that point, but it did s...

Its actually been a pretty dramatic several days now for this operation has stopped and started a couple of times. heres the deal, bp hopes this new cap would either hold all the oil inside kind of like a stopper or if theres too much pressure the oil will be funneled through lines to big ships. youre seeing this out under water because bp says theyre using dispersants in that area again. bob kapnar has 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry and it could be hard for somebody who is not ...

Weve had a number of conversations and early this afternoon i briefed the president and members of the cabinet on the way forward and at this time will be releasing an order to bp to proceed with the well integrity test but we gave them some additional direction and we did this to make sure that we were taking due care and in some cases maybe an over abundance of caution to make sure we didnt do reversible harm to the well bore as we proceeded forward. what we are going to do when bp is ready an...