Containment Caps News Today

The bp oil spill. >> as the storm approaches the spill site, the winds are going to come out of the southeast to east and drive some of the oil into the shoreline of louisiana. >> reporter: and so louisiana governor bobby jindal has declared a state of emergency. bp has already evacuated nonessential workers from eight th prontial workers from eight fragile coast from oil being moved inland. >> break the anchors and pull it out, more than anything it will tear it up. once it g uses. >> repor: bp...

>> this is a fox news alert. want to update you whats going on beneath the gulf of mexico right now. we are now getting word from bp. that this swap of containment caps is underway. theyre going to take the old containment cap catching half the oil and replacing one that would get it all and now theyre saying that could take as long as four to seven days and a good portion of the four to seven days the well will flow unabated. well continue to keep you up on this story as we move forward through...

See one of the real risks of course is when they put this cap, this new cap on, if they dont pressurize it slowly enough, it could back pressure down the well bore and, you know, compromise the integrity of the existing well bore down near the reservoir which would preclude a successful relief well, bottom kill, thats the worst of the worst night marry sna nightmare scenario that we dont want. all of these rigs that operate in deep water havent thought through how to respond to this, so before t...