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Containment cap. it could put an end to the flow of oil from the rub chured well. bp has replaced a leaking piece of equipment that delayed the test. argentina is the first latin american country to legalize same sex marriage. the measure cleared argentinas senate after hours and hours of debate. it also gives gay couples the right to adopt children. former vice president dick cheney is recovering from heart surgery in a virginia hospital. he had a small pump place in his heart to improve it...

Admiral, can you give us a little idea right now from what youve seen from this latest effort of whether this -- did this cap is going to work as its intend or whether you will have to go back to full production with four vessels? what can you tell us about the outcome of this based on the leak you found, you know, the little bit of delay that youve had and the pressure readings that youve seen a little bit of. >> let me be perfectly clear on this. the intention of the capping stack was never to...

The entire key issue on all. this is controlling pressure from the reservoir, and the pressure out of the reservoir right now and im giving you a range between 11,000 to 12,000 pounds per square inch pushing up into the macondo wellbore as a result of that well that was drilled. how is the pressure being controlled? they lost pressure and thats what caused the event to begin with on the 20th of april. we had a cap recovering some of the oil, but weve been venting oil, and when you vent oil that ...

If they get to it lets hope they do. pressures will be way up by then. when they close the top choke, that will be the final one that will keep this completely closed. there will be no more oil coming out of this well. >> man, chad, that is good stuff. congress is working on ways to help you financially. is that a little scary? well get the latest from capitol hill. first, a random moment in a minute. to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you?...

Stopped. the cap that was on top of the blowout preventer for so many weeks, is gone. it wasnt working all that well, anyway. oil is still going around. the top of the ploeout preventer, they cut it off. it wasnt very straight. it was cut off because the rovs were there, they cut it off and it didnt work very well. now its gone and they brought a brand-new top to the blowout preventer thats a good seal. a good seal on the blowout preventer, a good seal to the new cap where the valves are. the oi...

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...

Thats why we need to learn about the well integrity test. it will give us options, whether or not we can shut the well in or create a more effective containment system with four production platforms off the new cap to allow us to shield the environment from a massive discharge of oil thus far but the ability of that well to hold pressure, whether its low or high is very, very instructive on how were going to penetrate the well, the amount of mud, and weight of the mud which can vary and how they...

We told them you need to give us a plan on how you are going to get redundancy and if a piece of equipment breaks not only can you produce but produce if a range of 25,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. we gave that to them, they provided a plan to us. the capping stack on right now is part of the containment plan we ordered them to provide. while we had the opportunity to potentially shut in the well, if the readings are correct, what this does is gives us four different outlets to go to four differe...

Cap, thats when they noticed that there was a leak in what they call the choke line. well, over night, they were able to remove that choke line, replace it. its fixed, good to go. that was told to us a couple of hours ago, and bp also saying that they expected later this morning to be able to get started with that testing again where they would close off this cap and do all of those important pressure readings every few hours to see if this well might be leaking down below. if theyre able to bui...