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Where this attaches to the stack, we want to make sure no leaks there. the bigger question, though, and one of the reasons they are increasingly saying they may not use this as a permanent fix is they're worried about a leak down here along the sea bed floor where the well goes deep underground. nothing they can do at this point. they're worried as they stop the pressure up here it puts pressure back down and perhaps there was some damage in the explosion down along the sea floor. that's one thing they worry about there. let's just take a closer look at this capping stack, take these out of th...

Capacity to be able to accommodate the flow rate which the government estimated and still systems to be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. to that end, the capping stack off the kill and the choke lines, together with the kill and choke lines off the legacy bp deepwater horizon give us four outlets from which to produce and what we intend to do is from the kill and the choke line on the legacy b.o.p. is to produce to the helix producer and the pisces, which are floating production units that will then transfer to shuttle tankers. the kill and the choke line on the stacking cap that we have right ...

Stack which stopped the flow directly out of the top of the capping stack. we then closed the kill line. it left a choke lin. and the way this is set up, the choke line is going to have a variable valve we can close slowly and be able to assess the pressure readings as tkwoe that. in the process of doing that, we discovered there was a leak on the choke line. at that point, we terminated -- we terminated the test that the point so we could determine the cause of the leak and repair that. overnight that has been repaired. i'll show where you that is in a minute. we are ready now to restart the ...

>> did bp have any quality control on these parts before they installed them on the cap that would allow them to detect a leak, a hole or anything like that? if not, will there be in the future or what were they if there were any? >> i'm not sure i can tell you exactly on thatpert pop we'll get that information and get back to you. i do know this. a lot going on here has been designed and engineered for the first time to deal with this particular problem. the capping stack was a custom made stack that includes three rams. i would call it a mini blowout preventer. but it also includes a kill on...

Not sort of fake projects where you're building stuff for no reason. jon: liz, thank you very much, good talking to you. jenna: we're starting with a news briefing here in admiral thad allen with an update of what's going on in the gulf. let's listen in: >> consider outcomes, once that was done i gave the order with slight modifications to include some requirements for seismic testing, akao*sing testing, to go ahead and proceed last night. the sequence on how that test proceed was to take the q4000 helix producer off line to have all the oil and hydrocarbons coming up through the blowout preve...