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That he responsibility for safety of drilling operations. >> thats bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didnt work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburtons well sealing work. and halliburton, you can take a guess. >> we understand that the drilling contract to replace the dense drilling flu...

Operator of the well, hired transocean to drill that well. transocean as owner and operator of the deep water horizon drilling rig, had responsibility for safety of drilling operations. frs >> thats bp pointing the finger at the blowout r preventer which didnt work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburtons wel...

Operator of the well hired transocean to drill that well. transocean as owner and operator of the deep horizon drilling rig had the responsibility for the safety of drilling operations. >> thats bp pointing the finger at the blowout preventer which didnt work in transocean. what did transocean have to say? listen. >> the one thing we do know on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, casing or both. >> so that is transocean blaming halliburtons well seal...

We are getting off of here werks are all dead. >> ed lavandera joins us live from new orleans. good morning, ed. >> reporter: good morning, ken. those hearings from washington have the potential of being rather intense today as the company officials from all of the major players in this oil rig disaster will be showing up. you have executives from trans ocean which owned the oil rig. you have b.p. which was in control of the drilling operations. you also have halliburton which really hasnt been ...

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Thats a hugely significant event, because before they had a cap on the well. they had it contained, and now they have this well completely under control. essentially killing this well and ending its threat. right now, theyre monitoring it. they may have to adjust the amount of mud they have put in there, but right now theyre also involved in conversations with government scientists about what to do next. perhaps theyll put a cement plug near the top of this well. in addition to the cement plug t...

Leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. and we are very pleased with that. michelle franzen joins us from venice, louisiana. we just heard from admiral thad allen about the latest on killing this well. >> thats exactly right. >> thats exactly right. the static kill, describing it as the blownout well, now in static condition. they were able to pump the mud down there successfully, push the mud down in the reservoir, and they are now in control of the pressure of that wel...

Working right now where the pressure is at zero and theyre able to maintain that and thats what theyre going to monitor. a very small victory. not the end all. of course, the full kill, the final kill will take place hopefully and start that process in the next couple of days. thats in the relief wells that they created and theyre hoping to put a cement plug in place hopefully by mid-august to finally put the final, the kill on this well. jeff? >> theyre calling that the bottom kill. all right, ...

Has to go through the relief well to get there for the bottom kill. officials said today drilling of the relief well will continue no matter what and theyre still analyzing the results of pressure tests to determine whether they will then do that bottom kill or not, wolf. >> the pressure tests are really critical. theyre crucial arent they? thats right. there are risks associated with that bottom kill and those pressure tests will tell them whether doing the bottom kill would put too much pressu...

Steven newman didnt answer. but in his testimony, he did dispute bps accusation that the failure of transoceans blowout preventer caused the accident. and he repeatedly blasted the oil giant thats been his companys close partner saying bp was responsible for the work as operator of the rig. it came during questions about something that happened on the rig shortly before the explosion. according to accounts of rig workers in "the wall street journal," there was an anomaly. heavy drilling fluid wa...