Fitting Containment Cap News Today

The gulf and it is good news this morning, according to many who have followed this from day one. now day 85 into the gulf oil disaster. a look now at the new cap. these are live underwater pictures. bp got it situated last night and now beginning today, bp will begin testing the pressure in the well to see if the cap will work at actually stopping the oil flow all together. if all goes as planned, the next step would be to close the vents and drastically cut the flow of oil. ed lavendera is liv...

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Waiting for? joining me now, donovan newenhost, professor of petroleum geoscience at the university of houston. im sure, don, youve been looking at these live pictures as we have and i guess potentially what we would see is a slowing or at least a narrowing of the leak thats coming out of the top of this thing. correct? >> yes. i think what theyre going to probably try to do is close some of the vents at a time slowly so they can check the pressure response to closing those vents because they wa...

These kind of blow-out protectors and caps on the racks, as you say, so we can pull them off and put them if place in case, god forbid, this happens again? >> i believe thats absolutely correct. i think the easiest solution to the concerns that we all have are to have this equipment available. now this particular type of cap is something they didnt have before, but now they will have that available. and i think it would be appropriate for them to have the equipment they need for every type of we...

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This cap could either work by itself and essentially cut off the flow or they my need the pipes to mitigate the flow and bring it to the surface. they say they have enough can a pass toy the surface of the water with the vessels there to con collecting it. or worst case scenario, this doesnt work and have to return to the previous cap that was on set they took off on saturday which was only capturing about 25,000 barrel as day of oil. given the tone of optimism, i can imagine across the corporat...

Theyre being able to exercise the valves over the next 6 to 48 hours. if this doesnt work, if, in other words, the pressure builds up to the point where they cannot actually shut it off, whats the back-up? just put a hose on the top of this thing, then suck the oil off through the top? >> actually, they already have three hoses, i believe, connected. i know they have two connected already to the lower marine riser package. theyll have a third hose attached to this stack itself. then they can als...

>> this is the first time weve heard bp expressing real optimism that if this seal fits and if the pressure reads the way they need it to and what they need it to do is show that its high, meaning that there isnt another part of the well thats compromised and leaking, if it fits, this is the turning point, right? this is the end of the oil flow? >> oh, if they can shut it in and they have about 8,700 psi down there at the cap, that would probably indicate -- it is a strong indication that they h...

Spilled. will it work? thats the big question. were asking it to darryl bourgoyne, joining us from new orleans, i believe, or louisiana at least. baton rouge, director of louisiana state universitys engineering petroleum lab. so far from what youve seen, obvious question -- is this working? >> oh, yes. you know, i was reviewing some of the stuff this morning on the web that bps put up and it looks like things are working, going as planned. >> and the plan is now, as we are looking at this video ...

Welcome back. day 85 of the gulf oil disaster. it is a critical day as bp is going to begin testing a new, tighter fitting containment cap which could, if it works, could begin to contain some or possibly all of the oil which has been freely flowing into the gulf of mexico. im being told that we have some amazing pictures of our own david mattingly, who is live on a coast guard cutter. hey, david. >> reporter: hi. were on the coast guard cutter resolute. we are short distance away from ground ze...