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To us once again what they are worried about could go wrong. >> reporter: well, they need to just by the name of the test. integrity testing. essentially what theyre going to do in this test is close off all of the valves. you can imagine how intense the pressure with all of this oil shooting out into the gulf of mexico. we are talking about intense, intense pressure. when they cap that, all that pressure is kind of contained in there and they need to make sure that the cap that theyve put on th...

Well. cnns ed lavandera on day 86 of the bp spill. >> reporter: the preparations for this integrity test have started in the gulf. significant because over the course of the next 48 hours, in six-our increments, we could begin to get a sense of whether or not this containment cap system is going to work the way bp officials and federal government officials hope it will. that means as all of the events and everything is shut down, they will begin pressure readings to determine whether or not this...

The testing period with apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico and the pressure readings under the new tight fitting cap steadily rising. they have not seen or detected any new oil over this integrity test via a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the surface. the data indicates the wells integrity appears to be sound. instead of leaving it corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan r...

Them. the new celebrity couple? bristol and levi? what led to their reunion. "us weekly" takes us behind the scenes. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is day 89 of the gulf oil disaster. bps integrity test of the new cap will no go on until at least tomorrow afternoon. in the meantime, bp says one of two relief wells is just a few feet from interseptembering the crippled well and there are still millions of gallons of oil to clean up. it was about ten miles northeast of the well site. t...

Of it spilling into the gulf but going into the surface ships all of which will happen until finally the ultimate fix bottom kill below the surface. >> where does the relief well drilling stand at this point? >> they actually did pause the drilling while they did the integrity test. drilling has resumed. we got on board by transocean, one of the two ships that is drilling. deepest relief well is about 17,840 feet. according to bp, its 24 feet away from point of interception but its slow going be...

Drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so its gone well. >> if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court in terms of how much spill there actually...

Service, mr. mason, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, keith. >> explain briefly how a blowout preventer works and what testing tells them before you install them. >> well, a blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to shear the well off if the primary way doesnt work, which is to seal the pipe off. to test the bops its what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> so what exactly is the claim youve made about the testing that bp and its contractors...

Connects the rig above to the oil in the ground was something they finished with well ahead of time. the accusation is that there was a problem here that allowed a rush of oil, a rush of methane gas which caused this explosion. but what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but were just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. theyre saying if youre looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the pe...