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Cementing plan. we pretty much kim to a consensus on that. so today's effort into tomorrow will be to finish off cementing the well from the top down. let me state and i stated this several times, that this is not the end. but it will virtually assure us, that there will be no chance of oil leaking into the environment. we will then proceed to finish the relief well. the relief well is currently four and a half feet away from the mecondo well and 100 to 110 feet away from where they would enter the annulus. they have a drill pipe down and they're ready to drill through the cement shoe and cont...

In the well-being filled with mud. we now have equalized the pressure -- the hydro static pressure of the sea water with the pressure inside the capping stack. and basically have reached a static condition in the well that allows us to have high confidence that there will be no oil leaking into the environment, and we have significantly improved our chances to finally kill the well with the reliefwells when that does occur. the discussions that are going on today between the science team down in houston and the bp engineers are regarding whether or not we should follow up the mud that has been...

Good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob according to a leader of th operation to plug the blown out well, the process is going well. along the gulf, there is real hope it is the beginning of the end. bp has begun the static kill that is expected to choke the well once and for all. >> this is a really positive step forwad it's going to be good news at a time when thent b cf1 goo but i don't think it should be . >> reporter: kille complete wednesday, ma- >> the chances of this working are pretty much up around 95%, 99%. >> reporter: thestill requires heavy mud and lots of it, to push t...

It. that injection is through a relief well, which could be completed as early as next wednesday. >> we need to go to make sure we fill t annulus, the casing and then, any drill pipe tn follow with cnt this thing won't be sealed until the relief wells are don >> reporter: newumbeate n barrels spewed from the well before it was capped two weeks ago. that's 53,000 barrels a day. rob and vinita? a federal judge in san francisco is set to issue a long-awaited ruling today on the legality of same-sex marriage in california. the landmark case involves a lawsuit brought by two same-sex they were lo...

At that point, they'll begin to pump mud into the choke line, and the horizon blowout preventer. it will start at one barrel per minute and move that up to two barrels her minute. there's going to be a very low rate of injection into the well because we don't need to do it in a higher rate as we did with the top kill because there's pressure back on the well with the capping stack. we don't know exactly how much mud will be pumped in. it will depend on the condition of the well itself. there are three areas that need to be filled, the drill pipe, the casing itself and the area outside the casi...