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They put that transition spool on yesterday and now they'll put the three ram stack on and then once that happens they're going to do this very important test to determine the integrity of the well and what's key about that is they're going to monitor the pressure and shut off the valves and everything where the oil is going out. they shut all that down and then they read the pressure. if the pressure is high, that's actually good news in this case because it means that the oil is just coming out of the blowout preventer and that drill pipe. if the pressure is low, that will be a problem becau...

Drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so it's gone well. >> if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court in terms of how much spill there actually was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and penalties? >> it's very possible, keith,...

And place this might longs, six inch diameter tube into the pipe to siphon up the oil to a tanker that is on the surface. in order to do that the tube has to be passed through a framework device that is on the ocean bottom. that is when bp officials say they begin to encounter problems. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the discover enterprise the drill ship, can connect to it. when they attempted it, the frame shifted and what they had to do they brought the tool back to the surface and reorient the frame so the next attempt will be more successful. >> the...

Happened. listen to this. >> in the test, the pressures measured at any point from the drill rig to the blowout preventer should be the same in all three lines. but what the test showed is that the pressures in the drill pipe were significantly higher. mr. dupree explained that it could signal a that an influx of gas was causing the pressure to mount inside the well board. >> so this is how a new area of focus that we are going to be focusing on to figure out whether something was known about the pressure. remember, that when you drill for oil in the ground, a great deal of pressure sends this...

Gas hydrates at bay. that's what they're counting on. they're also looking at another option and that is called an insertion tube. it's basically taking a riser, again a pipe that has a drill pipe inside and attaching it to the broken riser and then pumping the oil out that way. and the third option they're looking at is something called a junk shot, that could take place as early as the middle of next week, and that is essentially to send rubber debris under high pressure, things like shredded tires and golf balls into the blowout preventer which is the emergency brake on the well that didn't...