Riser Cut News Today

Out? >> wolf, what weve done, we went back and we developed a new estimate as youve been -- as youve discussed, and the next thing we want to do is add on what we think the incremental difference is as a result of the cut in the riser pipe, and were doing that a couple different ways. the same team is now impaneled to take the increment that might have changed with the riser cut, and were also going to use an rov to deploy some pressure sensors down on the blowout preventer to actually get some ...

Periodically to get accuracy. the fact of the matter is we are never going to know what that flow is until we can measure it through a pipe with no leakage. in the meantime, we need to continue to refine these estimates, and they are government estimates and will continue to change and hopefully continue to get more accurate. >> and presumably it could be a whole lot worse after the cut procedure in earlyune took place because it was going to open it up. we dont know how much, by a factor of 20%...

Dr. steven choo and secretary salazar are working with bp on that. this is the first step in refining our estimates moving forward post riser cut and also to get better readings with pressure. we had problems with so many rovs operating down there. we are going to put some sensors and get pressure readings over the next couple of days. i would expect this estimate could evolve over the next four or five days as we know more about whats going on with the pressure readings we are going to be takin...