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Saturday, and thats at the earliest. why? there is a complicated system of connections that still need to be made. the national incident commander, thad allen, explained it this way. >> as you know, the discovery enterprise is taking oil straight from the riser pipe and the lower package right now through the containment cap. were also producing through the choke line, through the q4000. we intend to take the oil coming out of the kill line at this point, and hook that up to the helix producer. ...

Up? >> we are watching the weather closely. i think we have weather building through this week and the indications are in the forecast that it should be laying down this coming weekend. so we are hopeful for getting it installed at that point. we are just going to have to watch the weather. once we do get it installed, the ship itself can handle 60,000 barrels of liquids. 45,000 barrels of oil a day. but the way it is being connected here is a little restricted. so were hoping to get 25,000 a da...

Associated with the production vessel thats out there right now. were looking at potentially changing to a new containment cap in july to allow us greater flexibility. it will be hooked up to the riser pipe through flexible hoses, and it will be flowsing flew the surface. everybody has to understand if we have to evacuate through the site there would be a period of time that the flow would be unabated from the well. >> i want to bring up this report, republican congressman darryl issa. hes relea...

That containment cap, the main thing slowing and collecting the oil. >> the system that collected more than 1 million gallons of oil from the seafloor tuesday looked like this today, oil gushing almost unchecked. one of the remote operated vehicles, bps eyes and hands a mile beneath the surface, was spreading disspendants when it ran into the containment cap at 9:45 eastern. the accident forced a vent closed. those troublesome ice-like crystals that can block vents and create pressure inside the...

And his surprise that mcchrystal lasted this long with the interrogator who calls himself matthew mcalexander. day 65 in the gulf. >> discover enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser pipe and moved away until they could assess the condition. >> translation, a robot collided with the well cap increasing the gusher. worst yet, you cant stop it. you may not even be able to hope to contain it. the doomsday scenario positive on a petroleum geologist website. the pipes below the ocean fl...

Them getting hydrates, which is an ice that forms between the sea water and natural gas. if that gets into that riser pipe, it blocks it and then they cant recover any more oil. >> how does something like that happen? is it likely to happen again? >> well, theres lots of currents. you think about that being static down there, but there a lot of water moving around and those remote-operated vehicles, those rovs latch on and when they unlatch to move around, sometimes they can get pushed by curren...

React. day 65 in the gulf. >> discover enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser pipe and moved away until they assessed the condition. >> translation, a robot collided with the well cap increasing the gusher. you cant stop it. you may not even be able to hope to contain it. the doomsday scenario on a petroleum geogist website. the pipes may be leaking and there may be no way to ever stop it. just back from the gulf is our guest. the apology he apologized for and then retracted. he m...

Down that prevents hydrates from forming. the discovery enterprise removed the containment cap and moved away until they could assess the conditi condition. they have indicated the problem was a remotely operated vehicle had bumped into one of the vents that allows the excess oil to come out and actually closed it, thereby creating pressure, and the backflow up the water vent. they are checking the containment cap right now. if there are no hide rates in the containment cap, they will reinstall ...

Barrels a day. >> its going to be pretty crowded out there, as you can imagine. its going to be carefully, carefully staged and sequence. >> staged from bps houston command center, recently visited by cnn. now, how is the oil going to get to the four ships? this graphic shows that. the riser pipe in place now is going to be one of the pipes used. other lines previously used in the top kill and other operations will be sent to the other vessels. and a new cap will be put in place. you can see it ...

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 ...