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Capacity to be able to accommodate the flow rate which the government estimated and still systems to be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. to that end, the capping stack off the kill and the choke lines, together with the kill and choke lines off the legacy bp deepwater horizon give us four outlets from which to produce and what we intend to do is from the kill and the choke line on the legacy b.o.p. is to produce to the helix producer and the pisces, which are floating production units that will t...

The ideal kind of best-case scenario would be that this containment cap system essentially works by itself and seals off the oil flow. but perhaps what i think officials here seem to be the more likely process that will happen, is that they will be able to reconnect all the riser pipes to containment ships on the surface of the water and at the very least, collect all of the oil that is, that is spewing into the gulf of mexico. so one of those two options they hope will be how all of this plays ...

>> did bp have any quality control on these parts before they installed them on the cap that would allow them to detect a leak, a hole or anything like that? if not, will there be in the future or what were they if there were any? >> im not sure i can tell you exactly on thatpert pop well get that information and get back to you. i do know this. a lot going on here has been designed and engineered for the first time to deal with this particular problem. the capping stack was a custom made stack ...

Line. >> thank you for taking my call. [ inaudible ] >> okay. heres the sequence once again. there are basically three ways that hydrocarbons can come up through a blowout preventer preventer, the one thats there or the capping stack we put on. the kill and the choke lines and then the main bore up through the preventer itself. we now have a capping stack on top of that. so there are five ways that you can potentially release oil. the kill and choke line from the original blowout preventer, the ...

And we will remove the way for the hydrocarbons to exit through the kill and choke lines on the original blowout preventer. then we move to three exit points, the choke and kill lines of the capping stack and then the top opening of the capping stack. then we will in sequence, first -- there are three rams that are part of the capping stack. the middle ram will be closed. that will seal the upper opening from any hydrocarbon release and leaves us the kill and choke lines. the kill line will be c...

>> caller: its a good clarification. the existing cap is removed. what has yet to be removed is the flange. yes. what you are seeing is oil gushing freely. what was sort of inhibiting it earlier is the presence of discover enterprise, a ship collecting up to 15,000 to 16,000 barrels a day. its no longer there. they had to move the ship off to remove the current existing cap. you will still see collection by the choke lines at the blow out preventer through the q-4000. its going to give another 8...

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...

Capping stack. valves to the kill and the choke lines for the new capping stack will be opened, and the center bore is already opened. we will be venting basically through three different exits, on the capping stack, kill line and choke line and the main line going through the bore. and then in sequence, we will attempt to close the stack down and assess the pressure readings as we do that. the first thing we did will do is the close the main ram. the middle one were be closed to shut down outwa...