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Slowly on this because it was such a big environmental disaster. they want to make sure all the is are dotted and all the ts are crossed when it comes to safety and capping another huge spill like that again, they want to make sure that the safety measures are in place so that they can cap the thing like right now. >> yeah. and just quickly, one thing that has happened is that four big oil companies after the spill last year knot got together, including shell, spent $1 billion to create a contai...

Wouldnt be visiting the gulf. what do they attribute their success to there, they havent had many soiled beaches or people starting to come back? >> reporter: well, i think the nun one thing they attribute it to is finally able to watch and see this wellhead with no oil coming out. as we were showing as so many were seeing the oil emanating and washing up on the beaches, that was the repellent, the thing that kept people away. since they put on the containment cap, even before the static kill th...

Help us understand, yes, we have been told, this thing is not going to be a threat to us anymore, and its dead but they are still trying to kill it again? >> reporter: absolutely. this is basically going to seal it off for good. the measure they will undergo today will involve the final process of what we are referring to is the bottom kill. that will be the continuation of digging the relief well. the relief well itself is something that has been dug right along the broken well. it goes down 17...

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That we ordered drilled that will be the final kill kill. probably in the next 10 to 14 days, that will be done. but an important step last night. and as you also noted, our scientists and external scientists believe that the vast majority of the oil has now been contained. its been skimmed. of mother nature has done its part. its evaporated. and so i think were turning a corner here. >> for 107 days, we were talking about all the oil going into the gulf. where did all the oil go? this graph is ...

Ruptured well has been captured. it has been recovered through the containment cap, skimming operations and controlled burns. now, 25% has evaporated or dissolved and thats considered a lowball estimate, by the way. 24% has been dispersed, broken into smaller drop lets, either by natural means or the chemical solvents. that leaves 26% of all the oil that has poured from that leak. it has either washed up on shore or still remains at sea, either on the surface of that -- of the ocean or, of cours...

Different from the top kill they tried once before. >> it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. thats the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so theyre trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. thats different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing ju...

Has been building under it. >> reporter: well, you know, this is sort of the difference between the static kill and the top kill. during the top kill there wasnt the containment cap on top. they were able to keep pressures monitored by the engineers watching this. with the cap in place, they will be able to pump the mud and cement through the blownout preventer and down into the well during this procedure. and as the procedure is going on, those engineers are going to be taking pressure readings...

>> they tried so many things, the top kill, the top hat, the junk shot, you name it. why are they so confident this time it will do it? >> theyre confident this time around, because they feel like unlike top kill, theyve got that cap in place so this cup at youred well is under control, they feel at the moment. and they have been taking pressure readings, so right now, the pressure read attention -- and i dont want to bore you with the details, but the pressure readings are such that they feel l...

Exactly how this is working. >> reporter: well, im an acosta, not a picasso, but im doing my best down here. it helps to get your arms and your brain around what theyre doing down here to look at it firsthand. what they are going to be doing over the next 24 to 48 hoyers, keeping in mind that these pressure readings continue to come back well, we are going to start seeing that heavy mud starting to pump down towards the containment cap, and its going to go right into that containment cap on top ...