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>> operator must now have a plan in advance to shut in a deep water blowout and capture oil flowing from a wild well. they must have a plan, they must have ak is ses to the equipment and they must have arrangements, contractual or otherwise, that show their ability to make use of that equipment. in this way, rather than improvising a containment response on the fly, with its inevitable hits and misses, each operator needs to work through its containment plan in advance and we have to approve that plan. europe is also preparing legislation. it wants to put a legal obligation on oil companies ...

Right now, coming to the gulf coast to be positioned in the bays in the calm waters where they can scoop up the oil before it gets into the marsh grasses? >> bp has said it's developing a new containment response as they call it, that will help the cleanup operators connect and disconnect oil recovery systems faster. this way, they say they would have fewer disruptions during the storms. is bp moving fast enough on this for you? >> no. and saying something like that, what, are you going to reduce it from ten days lost to seven days? you're still going to have 420,000 barrels that have gushed u...

Right now, coming to the gulf coast to be positioned in the bays in the calm waters where they can scoop up the oil before it gets into the marsh grasses? >> bp has said it's developing a new containment response as they call it, that will help the cleanup operators connect and disconnect oil recovery systems faster. this way, they say they would have fewer disruptions during the storms. is bp moving fast enough on this for you? >> no. and saying something like that, what, are you going to reduce it from ten days lost to seven days? you're still going to have 420,000 barrels that have gushed u...