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To be greasily negligent. a crucial test is being rescheduled until tomorrow at the earliest, a test that needs to take place before the company goes ahead with the static kill plan to seal off the well. bp says a small leak was discovered that needs to be prepared. tom foreman joins me now from new orleans with a look at what that static kill involves. >> reporter: federal authorities are preparing out in the gulf, off the shore here for this test. they'll pump small bursts of another type of oil in that well to see if they can force it down against the current, so to speak, two miles below t...

Test. they'll pump small bursts of another type of oil in that well to see if they can force it down against the current, so to speak, two miles below the well ahead into the actual oil reservoir, if they have no nasty surprises during that injectivity test, that's what it's called, then the static kill should begin tomorrow. that will involve pumping in a steady stream of heavy drilling fluid or mud, as it's called. and then increasing the pressure until that mud is pushing the oil back down into the reservoir. you see how it goes out through the blowout preventer there? if it goes all the wa...

Different from the top kill they tried once before. >> it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. that's the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so they're trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. that's different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing just a few moments ago, randy, where they talked about a test that we haven't heard a whole lot abo...

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