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And start to slowly close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time, as we intended to do. just to let you know what happened, this is the choke line. off of the capping stack. as you know, this comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you've seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curve pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here and there is an ass assembly where this meets together. the entire choke assembly was removed and replaced overnight. they are checking this right now to make sure it is ready to g...

Range of 60,000 barrels a day based on the new rate we developed years ago. they provided a plan to us. the capping stack that is on right now is actually part of the containment plan that we ordered them to provide. while we had the opportunity to potentially shut in the well, if the readings are correct, what this really does for us is give us four different outlets to go to four different production platforms and the capacity to us low us to cover 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, which is above the maximum floor rate that we estimate right now. those are the two parts to that. >> operator, w...

>> dispersance are certainly an issue. they have their own inherent toxicity, much more mild than the oil itself, but the combination of the oil and the dispersant actually has a combined cumulative toxicity that's more than the sum of the individual toxicity. so there's questions about whether to use the dispersant at depth in the first place and on the surface as well, but the other thing i think going on this morning that they installed this brand new capping stack and it sprung a leak within a couple of hours of it being used, i think bp can now also stand for bad plumbers. i think it real...

Diameter. they're very cautious. that's the reason we're not coming off the mid-august prediction. it's going to be very methodical. in relation to why this wasn't done earlier, i'm assuming you're talking about the capping stack it had to be designed, tested and brauought to site an as you see, there are, obviously, some leaks we're having to fix and things like that. a range of capping devices that have been developed probably over ten, or all developed under different scenarios and we can actually remove it and put a flange on it and built a model of this on land and tested it before they b...

Metphorically put your thumb over the garden hose. in this case it is called a capping stack. three ways for the oil to leave that capping stack and then very slowly close that third choke line down and then do pressure readings. if we have very low pressure readings, it would be the equivalent of putting your thumb over the garden hose and the water is going some place else. if we get high pressure readings that is indication that the wellbore is in tact and that all then relates to how much mud and the procedures that would be needed and how to kill the well down below. is that more descript...