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Do? >> reporter: well, a lethal injection, savannah, is a great way to describe it. excuse me. i have mixed minus in my ear. what they're going to do is pump heavy mud through the choke line and into the blowout preventer and the goal here is to force all the oil back down into the reservoir. now, officials think there's somewhere around 2,000 barrels of oil in the wellbore. they have heavy mud on hand to do it. so why do the static kill? if you have to do the relief kill. that's the bottom kill. officials say the static kill is an shurns policy against hurricanes. they will have permanently c...

That's why they call it static kill. now they're looking at that option to give them the means to end this threat a little more quickly. here's what they had to say about it. >> what you're doing is you're putting mud down and you're not putting hydrocarbons into the formation. so the question would be at that point what that would tell you. we would have to analyze the data associated with that. if we thought there was a problem with well integrity we could at that point start going to containment or vent. but i think we need to have detailed discussions understanding what the actual procedur...