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>> hopefully it will. we believe we can explore and produce in a safe and environmentally proper way. it's important for the country, the gulf states and employment. that's why we announced this containment system, let's get the industry back to work as quickly as we can. >> neil: you can get more of the chat with the conocophillips c.e.o. at 6:00 p.m. we'll get into whether he thinks washington is using the bill to clamp down on oil companies and continue the antibusiness bashing watch. it's coming up on "fox business." which, if you don't get ... >> ... demand it! >> the judge is about to he...

Be at odds over whether to leave that well capped, as bp wants to do, or allow some oil to seep out and be siphoned to ships in the gulf. bp says hooking up that containment system would leave oil once again spewing freely into the gulf for three days. >> here we find ourselves at a point which we would hope would be the end of this opera. but instead, we have this nagging doubt that something very serious might be wrong. >> reporter: bp has another idea. >> in terms of the static kill, this is very much in its infancy. this is not something that we have approved to do. >> reporter: the latest...

They are going to go back to containing the oil and they say they can do that fairly quickly. the q4,000 and the helix producer, two of the vessels are already out at the site. they've got the discover enterprise there and it's got a cap that could go on top of this new sealing cap that exists. they've got a lot of ways to go. when they do get the containment system fully up and running, it can capture up to 80,000 barrels a day which is 20,000 barrels more than what the government thinks is flowing out at the high end. >> ann, have we made a technological leap here, for instance, we're having...

Since the disaster began 89 days ago. and in a blow to cleanup efforts, the super skimmer dubbed the a whale has been beached. weeks of testing showed it wasn't collecting enough oil. and the upcoming hours will be critical to see if the well cap will hold. charles hadlock joins us live from venice, louisiana. charles, going to what we learned from that technical briefing we got this morning. >> reporter: well, everyone remains cautiously optimistic. no one is ready to say this is a permanent fix for the well because they could have to take this containment cap off if they find that pressure...

If they do go forward and go all 48 hours, that would take us to about midday saturday. then they'll decide whether it ç would be a permanent shut-in opportunity or they would turn it back into a containment cap and send it up to the four vessels on the surface of the gulf of mexico. >> just to be clear, in the event they decide to do this, not as a plug but essentially as another means of funneling oil up to the surface, if they are using it as a containment system to funnel oil to the ships on the surface, they will still have to pull those ships in shore and stop the containment effort in ...