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>> caller: it's a good clarification. the existing cap is removed. what has yet to be removed is the flange. yes. what you are seeing is oil gushing freely. what was sort of inhibiting it earlier is the presence of discover enterprise, a ship collecting up to 15,000 to 16,000 barrels a day. it's no longer there. they had to move the ship off to remove the current existing cap. you will still see collection by the choke lines at the blow out preventer through the q-4000. it's going to give another 8,000 to 9,000 gallons a day. they have another ship they hope to get online and working and ready...

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...

Capping stack. valves to the kill and the choke lines for the new capping stack will be opened, and the center bore is already opened. we will be venting basically through three different exits, on the capping stack, kill line and choke line and the main line going through the bore. and then in sequence, we will attempt to close the stack down and assess the pressure readings as we do that. the first thing we did will do is the close the main ram. the middle one were be closed to shut down outward through the capping stack. we will take pressure readings. we will then close the kill line. whic...