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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,...

Service, mr. mason, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, keith. >> explain briefly how a blowout preventer works and what testing tells them before you install them. >> well, a blowout preventer works in two different ways. one, to shear the well off if the primary way doesn't work, which is to seal the pipe off. to test the bops it's what they call an integrity test to see if they hold up to the pressures. >> so what exactly is the claim you've made about the testing that bp and its contractors have done on the blowout preventers? >> well, when they test the bops they're supposed to hold e...

Connects the rig above to the oil in the ground was something they finished with well ahead of time. the accusation is that there was a problem here that allowed a rush of oil, a rush of methane gas which caused this explosion. but what halliburton is saying, we worked on it but we're just a subcontractor, we were done 20 hours before the accident and all of our work passed the integrity test. they're saying if you're looking for someone to blame here, look at the equipment operator, look at the people in charge but don't look so much at us. as you said from the beginning, we have a circle of ...