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All the details. this is a very significant test in the evolution of this response and our ability to increase our containment, our redundancy and capacity. i'l'll talk about that in a lite bit. we consulted extensively with outside experts. our science team led by secretary of energy chu consulted also with other members of industry regarding potential issues we should deal with. i will zero right in on what the discussion was mainly about and be happy to answer some questions about it. we have never been sure that we have known the condition of the well bore and the casing pipe since the eve...

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 we've 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 intend to do the well integrity test. we will slowly take down production from the q 4000 and the hel...

Floating production unit has been employed in the gulf coast. it was a pretty significant event. we had a chance to talk to the crew and get a brief on operations and that was very helpful moving forward. out on site today in and around the well site we had 44 skimmers, 20 of them actually within 15 nautical miles of the source. there continues to be a robust response to the oil being released while we are looking at the new stacking cap and the shift and i'd like to brief you on that. as i briefed my president yesterday in houston we had intended to proceed yesterday with the well integrity t...

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, you'll see kind of a yellow object with a curved up pipe. that is the choke line. that is the last way for oil to leave the capping stack. we will...

It's going to happen in ten days, it's going to happen in two hours. this is the first time they've done something that looks like it might work and there's been no hype. how do you explain that? why no pr on this? >> i've been confused about the whole process, chris. this cap, this containment cap that they are working on now, what they are calling the capping stack, has actually been one of their earliest ideas way back in april, and i know they have been working on this for quite some time. i've been confused why they didn't move forward with this several weeks ago. i know there were storms...