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We put out probably 4.5 to 5 million barrels out of the reservoir. as we were talking about earlier, it takes more wells than just one to drain the entire reservoir. you get a big pressure drop around the well board. it won't drain as well. there is depletion going. >> bob, this idea about the sort of fail safe on this being okay, we're not going to be able to keep this thing capped, but we are with that new stack cap going to be able to withdraw 80,000 barrels of oil a day, that's the high end anyway, that could be captured by relief efforts for the cap, if they resume the oil flow. that's fi...

Good evening from new york. day 85 of the crisis in the gulf and we've reached a point one mile under water where things are about to go very well or possibly very, very unwell jeapordizing even the success of the relief wells now under way. our fifth story tonight the director of professional geo sciences programs at the university of houston comparing the worst case scenario to, quote, a train running into a brick wall. the train is oil gushing out under the unimaginable pressures of miles of earth above it. the brick wall potentially is three valves inside the new cap known as a stack cap, ...

Can see that it looks like it's going to well, to whatever degree that's of any value, why didn't this stack cap exist on april 19th, sitting on a dock or in a rig somewhere, you know, just in case? >> well, that's where i've just worn a flat spot in the middle of my forehead from banging my head on the desk, because this is one of the first things they talked about on the first week of the blowout. of doing a cap. all these components in this stack are all standard cameron components that could be built very quickly. i don't understand why it took 2 1/2 months to set this, and that's what's r...

That's of any value, why didn't this stack cap exist on april 19th, sitting on a dock or in a rig somewhere, you know, just in case? >> well, that's where i've just worn a flat spot in the middle of my forehead from banging my head on the desk, because this is one of the first things they talked about on the first week of the blowout. of doing a cap. all these components in this stack are all standard cameron components that could be built very quickly. i don't understand why it took 2 1/2 months to set this, and that's what's really concerned me about what bp's ultimate motivation has been he...

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