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Them getting hydrates, which is an ice that forms between the sea water and natural gas. if that gets into that riser pipe, it blocks it and then they can't recover any more oil. >> how does something like that happen? is it likely to happen again? >> well, there's lots of currents. you think about that being static down there, but there a lot of water moving around and those remote-operated vehicles, those rovs latch on and when they unlatch to move around, sometimes they can get pushed by current and get pushed into the riser. so, it could happen again, but they've been pretty good about sta...

React. day 65 in the gulf. >> discover enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser pipe and moved away until they assessed the condition. >> translation, a robot collided with the well cap increasing the gusher. you can't stop it. you may not even be able to hope to contain it. the doomsday scenario on a petroleum geogist website. the pipes may be leaking and there may be no way to ever stop it. just back from the gulf is our guest. the apology he apologized for and then retracted. he may have just retracted the retraction and then tried to hide the retraction of the retraction. wors...

Down that prevents hydrates from forming. the discovery enterprise removed the containment cap and moved away until they could assess the conditi condition. they have indicated the problem was a remotely operated vehicle had bumped into one of the vents that allows the excess oil to come out and actually closed it, thereby creating pressure, and the backflow up the water vent. they are checking the containment cap right now. if there are no hide rates in the containment cap, they will reinstall the containment cap and begin producing later on in the day. they may have to rerun the pipeline, an...

Barrels a day. >> it's going to be pretty crowded out there, as you can imagine. it's going to be carefully, carefully staged and sequence. >> staged from bp's houston command center, recently visited by cnn. now, how is the oil going to get to the four ships? this graphic shows that. the riser pipe in place now is going to be one of the pipes used. other lines previously used in the top kill and other operations will be sent to the other vessels. and a new cap will be put in place. you can see it right down there, with valves on it to get the oil to the pipes. ambitious, risky, but a coast gu...

Out? >> wolf, what we've done, we went back and we developed a new estimate as you've been -- as you've discussed, and the next thing we want to do is add on what we think the incremental difference is as a result of the cut in the riser pipe, and we're doing that a couple different ways. the same team is now impaneled to take the increment that might have changed with the riser cut, and we're also going to use an rov to deploy some pressure sensors down on the blowout preventer to actually get some empirical readings of the pressure down there. dr. steven chu and secretary salazar are working...