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>> right. i think the admiral used an analogy this morning if you have a garden hose and you put your finger on the top of it, that pressure should still be in it. if you feel that the pressure of the hose is going out, that means theres holes along the garden hose and oil would be leaking out through the well casing. that is not something they want to see. they want to be able to control that flow. if the cap doesnt work by itself, the other option that they have, and i think the one they think...

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...

Just had a drawing board there and that was the breakdown. thats the incident commander trying to break this down as well. now let me show you what he said just a couple of hours ago giving us an update of where we are in this whole process. >> i dont want to reverse the priorities here, the priorities are to contain and stop the flow of oil. but the design of the cap itself, if we can withstand the pressures and the well bore stays intact presents the actual to shut the well in. which will give...

Its not working. >> shepard: theres thousands of these wells out there. maybe its time to get a well stack for up a of them if it happens once, it can happen again. dow jones newswires reports bp shares up 10%. go bp. on jonathan serrie is with us. have we gotten reaction from inside? >> not yet. before this exercise began, federal officials said based on the pressure, that alone will give them a better idea of the flow rate and consequently, if they multiply that by the days of the disaster, a ...

I know our friends along the gulf south, as glad as they are to see what happened today, they under as you have explained to us, both jonathan and shapiro, this is far from the end. hopefully it holds and when a hurricane comes, ships dont have to move away. we have ever reason to believe -- i dont know. they led tows believe 2 1/2 million gallons a day times however many days at whatever flow rate. the fish are doing weird things, beaches are shut down. we have a huge mess and we hope it gets b...

Or the second scenario, which they consider just as positive would mean that they could bring in and start collecting the oil in vessels and if the federal government estimates on the flow rate is correct which is as much as 60,000 barrels a day, and if they can collect 80,000 barrels a day, they have the situation covered which means the vast majority if not all of the oil is brought up to the surface. but over the last 24 hours, the scientists on the bp side and the government side really went...

This. i think in the interests of the american people, safety of the environment and safety of this project moving forward was advisable to take a 24-hour break and make sure we were getting this absolutely right, understood the best way to deal with the unknown quantity which was the condition of the well bore and the casings moving forward and now were prepared to do that. im glad to take your questions. >> admiral, david mattingly from cnn. cow characterize you what think the odds are for suc...

Strategy which was by the middle to the end of july to go to four production platforms and that will be producing at that point out of both kill-and-choke lines from both preventers. the legacy ones on the bottom and the new ones on the top to go to four production platforms. thats what gets us to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day which is in excess of our flow rate projections which are 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day with built-in redundancy in case one of the four went down we could keep operatin...

Stack cap ready to go weeks ago? >> great question. they certainly should have, could have, and may have put flow rate monitors on this thing. for all we know, they did and they havent told us. im hearing some more accurate figures coming out right now but im not certain. they certainly could have. on the second part of your question, thats the big one. they certainly should have had this stacking cap designed not just weeks ago but even before they were doing the drilling operation in the first...

Just wait until theyre at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers ive spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels, until theyre ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until theyre intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start c...