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The kill line to the helix producer and choke line to the q 4000. okay? last week as you remember we removed the stub of the riser pipe and we put in what we called a flange spool. on top of that what will happen, which was significant, is we've now seeded the capping stack here and basically it has three rams, a mini blowout preventer, also has a kill line and a choke line. okay? so you basically have a small bop on top of the larger bop that is legacy to the deepwater horizon. here is how we intend to do the well integrity test. we will slowly take down production from the q 4000 and the hel...

Floating production unit has been employed in the gulf coast. it was a pretty significant event. we had a chance to talk to the crew and get a brief on operations and that was very helpful moving forward. out on site today in and around the well site we had 44 skimmers, 20 of them actually within 15 nautical miles of the source. there continues to be a robust response to the oil being released while we are looking at the new stacking cap and the shift and i'd like to brief you on that. as i briefed my president yesterday in houston we had intended to proceed yesterday with the well integrity t...

Free-standing riser pipe. that is in progress right now and should be ready for production around the 19th of july. just a couple of other issues. skimmers have always been an issue for us. we know as we've expanded our defense of the coastline from florida to south central louisiana, we are on pace at this point by the end of the month of july to have approximately 1,000 skimmers on inventory. we are below 600, and are continuing to ramp up. resources have been freed up as a result of the emergency rule making. we have stand by requirements elsewhere in the country and we continue to aggressi...

Relief well, and development driller three is now at 17,840 feet, measured depth, they've been there for a day or two. they are doing testing to make sure they have the right angle of attack as they close in from the last 60 or 70 feet before they try and make the penetration for the relief well, and the current estimate of how far away they are from the well at this point is 4 feet 4-rbgs inches, so you can imagine this gets pretty precise as they're trying to go down another 60 or so feet, they actually drill into the anulus and a 7-inch casing pipe, so that continues as well. one other thin...

Then recut that riser pipe. much more efficient, perfect cut. then drop this new cap dome on forming a perfect seal in theory here. that will then allow all of the oil gushing up from below the sea floor to go up to the three containment ships up above. the pro deucer will then be online. admiral allen used the analogy of your garden hose. once done they can measure accurately pressure. put your hand on like that you feel the pressure. he says once they do that @jx# v will get the best assessment as to how much oil is spewing into the gulf per day. >> >> shepard: to the drilling moratorium. wh...