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Have blown to shore with the recent heavy weather we had, its given us a chance to consolidate our force, make sure we can redouble our efforts on shore cleanup. with that ill be able to answer any questions you may have. >> a question about the -- early on in this process, were you able to at least get any kind of pressure readings, any kind of indication as to how that might go or would that not even begin until the integrity test begins? >> well, we had initial pressure readings when we close...

Milk coming out in other places, but those are the valves that they have not closed yet. the big story is that the unabated, literally, oil coming out of the top of the new cap has stopped. and so, the pressures are beginning to come up, and as the oil stops coming out of the one, the yellow one on the right, and you can kind of tell that it is a yellow handle, that is the choke line, and behind it where the oil looks like it is coming out from the abyss back there, that is the kill line. those ...

The kill line to the helix producer and choke line to the q 4000. okay? last week as you remember we removed the stub of the riser pipe and we put in what we called a flange spool. on top of that what will happen, which was significant, is weve now seeded the capping stack here and basically it has three rams, a mini blowout preventer, also has a kill line and a choke line. okay? so you basically have a small bop on top of the larger bop that is legacy to the deepwater horizon. here is how we in...

Knew that this part of the pipe right there would become oil and gas-free moving out of the way there. but hard to see. oil is no longer coming out. now, there is oil, wolf, coming out from a couple of places, from what is called a choke line and kill line. this is exactly what we expected. they will not close the other valves for a while. that is the first valve they are going to close. they will check what the pressure is going to do. then they will slowly close the kill valve. then finally, m...

Capacity on the surface to deal with that. we will then in sequence close the middle ram here which will stop the flow out of the top of the stack and then we will take pressure readings. we will then close the kill line and take pressure readings. following that, we will use a remotely operated vehicle that will hook on to the little bar here that actually turns a valve and this choke line has been especially constructed if you looked at the video, youll see kind of a yellow object with a curve...

And we will remove the way for the hydrocarbons to exit through the kill and choke lines on the original blowout preventer. then we move to three exit points, the choke and kill lines of the capping stack and then the top opening of the capping stack. then we will in sequence, first -- there are three rams that are part of the capping stack. the middle ram will be closed. that will seal the upper opening from any hydrocarbon release and leaves us the kill and choke lines. the kill line will be c...

The man leading the federal governments response to the gulf oil disaster. still in the middle of an updated briefing from houston. retired ghost kaurd admiral thad allen thld describing what you would have to say is a pretty deliberate procedure being taken this afternoon to close five openings allowing oil to pour out of the wellbore. several lines have to be sealed off, the stacking cap line, the kill line, the choke line, the bore line. i think there was one other. all of these lines have to...

Pressure indeterminately and indefinitely which means there is an aunt to have an opportunity of a shut in of the well to just hold them at this point. anything less than that might bring into play a decision to continue to produce. at that point, we will be a tibl produce off of four lines. the choke and the kill line from the original blowout preventer, plus the choke and the kill lines from the new stacking cap. that is intended around the 18th of july to take us to a capacity of 60,000 to 80...

Will be venting basically through three different stack sets on the capping stack, the kill line, the choke line, and the mainline going through the bore. then in sequence, we will attempt to close the stack down and assess the pressure readings as we do that. the first thingy we will do is close the three rams, the main ram, that will be closed and that will basically shut off the flow outward to the top of the capping stack. at that point well take pressure readings. we will then close the kil...

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. ...