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About was the second piece of drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout prev t 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 it's 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 was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and pen...

Everything they can think of. they've going to run in parallel tracks until one of these solutions comes through for them. so hence, the top hat is going to be continue to be pushed, they're going to continue looking at putting additional b.o.p. stack in, to be able to shut the well flow off. all of these things are on the table. and rather than trying one and waiting to see what happens, they're going parallel. so that the, for example the relief well is already down about 5,000 feet. >> and what is your sense of the potential path for the oil slick? is it possible over a period of months to ...

The only thing i was worried about was the second piece of 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 it's 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 was, obviously, the number that would...

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 it's 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 was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and penalties? >> it's very possible, keith,...