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There is one vote left for this oilfield cleaning company, and one last bit of oil and drilling mud to scrub. >> once this job is finished, this boat will not long ver a job, because of the moratorium. >> that is how the dominos fall. the president shuts down deepwater drilling which dry docks the boats that supply the rigs. >> we won't be able to clean this boat again, because it can't go off shore to bring the mud back to us to clean. >> reporter: and they say that the six-month moratorium could kill the company on the 20th anniversary. >> if by july or august, deepwater drilling is not in e...

This is something i think is common sensical. if something goes wrong in our business, everybody from the top down wants to know who did it. wouldn't he from the top down immediately say what happened to the drilling mud? what happened to the cement? and go through quickly a checklist right there with his people between him and that well and find out what happened? wouldn't he want to know before he even thought about lawyers? >> i certainly would. and i would certainly want to be fully briefed and under the circumstances, i think that the more transparency, the more openness, the more honesty...

To refineries and go through the normal refining process. the stuff they're picking up on the beach, the tar balls and the things of that sort, they will get the water out, they'll get the sand out and then they'll probably just incinerate it, there's not a whole lot you can do with it to make it commercially viable. >> so no kind of recycling use for it at all? you just basically got to get rid of it? >> yeah, and there are ways to do that. typically what we do with waste from the drilling rigs and stuff like the used drilling mud and stuff that's contaminated, we have some deep disposal site...

Progress of the well? >> i was not. >> you were not? okay. now, before i continue, i know you've had difficulty answering some of the technical questions members have asked you. i know you brought a technical member with you, would you like us to swear him in to see if he can answer some of the technical questions? >> that depends on the question. >> we'll see how it goes. you said you received the chairman's june 14 letter to you which talks about five decisions that compromised the safety of this well -- well design, centralizer, cement bond log, mud circulation and lockdown sleeve. i want t...

Synthetic oils and other chemicals. in this case also may have used quantities of antifreeze which is toxic. mr. hayward, will you commit to disclosing the ingredients of the drilling mud? >> yes, we will. i believe all of the mud that went into the ocean is water based mud. no toxicity whatsoever. >> will you commit to disclosing all other measurements you made related to chemical, oil and methane concentrations in the water immediately. >> those are being published as we make them on a variety of web sites and we'll continue to do that. we'll make them available in whatever foirmss appropria...