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Terms of moving that equipment out of the area. obviously the equipment is owned by different companies. so bp, transocean and others will all make individual decisions as companies about when they will move equipment. i think there's no doubt that this storm has intensified, and decisions will be made probably likely later this afternoon on moving some of that equipment out of that. for instance, the dd-3, which is the rig drilling the relief well that is closest to the active well right now. and the q-4000 is the boat burning the oil covered through the original cap. the decisions made at 8:...

And promptly extended the capping another day, which he did again today. he was asked why the surface collection cannot be done immediately and why bp is claiming that checking at the surface would first require several more days of oil flowing unchecked again into the gulf. >> if we were to hook up the q-4000 and the helix producer, that would produce a number of problems right away. number one, there would be extensive pressure in those lines over and above what they were used to handling when they were both in production. secondarily, there are issues about the make-up of the hydro carbon s...

Extended the capping yet another day, which he did again today. he was asked why the surface collection cannot be done immediately and why bp is claiming that collecting at the surface would first require several more days of oil flowing unchecked again into the gulf. >> if we were to hook up the q-4000 and the helix producer, that would produce a number of problems right away. number one, there would be extensive pressure in those lines over and above what they were used to handling when they were both in production. secondarily, there are some issues about the make-up of the hydrocarbon stre...

On there, replace it, and now they're back on track to get this all-important pressure testing of this well going again. they've got a lot of things they've got to do now. they've got to test the seal. they've got to bring the rovs back online. again, they are back on track. this leak costing them probably about 24 hours in this process, but they are prepared to move forward again. another bit of good news that we found out in the technical briefing was that the oil we saw spewing out in the gulf was only a fraction of the oil that's coming out of there. they were able to restore the collectio...

Breaking news right now for the first time in months there is no oil leaking into the gulf of mexico. that is because of a critical test bp is currently conducting on a new well cap. so what happens after this test is completed? should be completed within 48 hours, and the national incident commander and retired coast guard admiral thad allen explains the process. >> within 48 hours, we will terminate the task back to production with the q-4000 and the helix producer and evaluate where we are at. that will include most likely another seismic run over the area, and this will be a -- this will a...