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Try to figure out how to kill the well from this condition, and the first thing is you're assuming that the wellbore has enough integrity to allow this kill to happen. any time you pump into the well, a static well the pressure will increase on the well. it has to. and that imparts risk, something could break. >> so, already, we have seen two weeks where no oil has leaked. why not leave things where they stand? >> well, i think that's a very good question. it's a very fair question because the relief well operation, if they were going to do a bottom kill on the operation, you can conduct that ...

See one of the real risks of course is when they put this cap, this new cap on, if they don't pressurize it slowly enough, it could back pressure down the well bore and, you know, compromise the integrity of the existing well bore down near the reservoir which would preclude a successful relief well, bottom kill, that's the worst of the worst night marry sna nightmare scenario that we don't want. all of these rigs that operate in deep water haven't thought through how to respond to this, so before they're allowed to operate again, to drill in deep water, they certainly need to have a risk asse...

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