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We're going to be doing something different. i recall it was something about displacing the riser with the sea water for that tower. >> taking drilling mud out. >> yes. >> and replacing it with sea water? >> yes. >> brown and others say the argument raised concerns because replacing dense mud with sea water meant less pressure to hold the oil down. >> why would they want to displace it with salt water? >> to make it quicker for the production well to get in once we capped the well. >> that's the idea. they wanted to close off the well. >> they were getting ready to go to the next well and they...

>> yes. >> the driller is transocean. >> the driller is transocean, yes, and the company man basically said we have some changes to that. we're going to be doing something different. i recall it was something about displacing the riser with the sea water for that tower. >> taking drilling mud out. >> yes. >> and replacing it with sea water? >> yes. >> brown and others say the argument raised concerns because replacing dense mud with sea water meant less pressure to hold the oil down. >> why would they want to displace it with salt water? >> to make it quicker for the production well to get in ...