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Seafloor. the sequence of events that will take place and start sometime after noon today, we are still i might add just the background, to have that vessel come through a sensitive akao*s -- the acoustic sensors requires everybody to clear out of the area, not only so they can have a very clear way to hear and do their sensing but also there are navigation issues and that's the reason it was done in daylight. we were going to do it yesterday but it was done at daylight. once everything is redeployed and back in the area, especially rob support , these things will happen in the following seque...

That ring was able to be clamped to this new capping stack that has all of the valves in it. and then all of a sudden this well made aluminum and iron down to a piece of 150,000 pound stack dropped on top of this, bolted together and sealed together, all of a sudden we have the oil coming out the top of this. well, yesterday, and of course today, they started closing the valves, cranking them ever so slowly. they wanted the pressures to stay high so that when the oil finally stopped coming out of the top, there it is, still coming out, when it finally stopped coming out, we knew the pressure s...

Closures which will be measured raidally by turns of the valve by an rob, simultaneously taking pressure readings. the goal is to slowly close that down and understand the changes in pressure as we are closing it until that choke line has closed. at that point, there will be no hydrocarbons exiting from the capping stack. and we will go into a period where we're going to start taking pressure readings. it will go in basically six, 24, and 40 hour increments depending upon the results. as we said before, while it may be counterintuitive to some, in this exercise, high pressure is good. we have ...

Former oil industry executive, bob cavnar who now wrotes for "the daily hurricane." bob, thanks for your time. >> happy to be here, keith. >> how possible is it that we're about to see the last drop of oil leaking into the gulf, from this spill, anyway? >> well, i think we're a couple of days from the possibility of that. about an hour ago, they landed what they're calling the capping stack, which is basically a mini blowout preventer on top of the old blowout preventer, and it looks like by the rov feeds that we're looking at that they're latching that on with one of the rovs. >> anything tha...

When the new, more tightly fitting cap placed on the wellhead, a fraction of the amount of oil that escaped to the gulf of mexico for three months escaped in the water. another sign of seepage has been ruled to be not related but there are still great concerns. >> the leakage is occurring located right about here. there is hydrate formation on the side of the capping stack as we move forward. >> admiral allen showing everyone on top of thecaing stack the new leak of oil has been detected. spotted sunday night. the stack has been a critical focus for scientist and engineers and it's all about t...