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Pumping drilling mud into the well to force that oil back down into the reservoir. essentially, pushing that oil back into the hole that it erupted out of and started this disaster back in april. what we are looking at right now is a matter of hours, possibly days for them to finish this operation called the static kill where they will pump enough mud in there to essentially drown the oil out and hold it at bay and beat back the pressure that the oil has built up over the days since they put that cap on. they went into the procedure almost immediately coming out of a short period of testing. t...

Tapers as it goes down deeper. where they plan to hit it is only about this wide, maybe seven inches across. and this pipe sits inside of an outer sleeve. even if you seal the inner pipe, there's a lot of room for oil to maybe leak through around it. in fact, if you do the page on this, rate yus squared times pii. there's as much room around this pipe as inside. what they're going to try to do if they can, they will pump into this area from the top with the static kill and fill up the middle of this if they possibly can do that, then once they fill that up, they'll come in and drill in from th...

His students demonstrated the procedure for cnn earlier. look at this. >> as can you see, the well is flowing from the top. when the well is flowing, you can't do a static kill because as soon as you inject mud it is blown out into the ocean. to have the static kill you must have the apparatus at the top to control flowing. the brown there simulates mud. the blue area simulates the ocean. this is the primary well, and this is a capping stack which for a series of hours will control flow. this is called a static kill operation because there is no flow of the well. we're going to kill the well b...

Don't ask me. jon: bp engineers are hoping to begin sealing that blown-out well that's caused such misery in the gulf. they are still conducting tests trying to figure out whether underwater equipment can handle the i increase in pressure. we are getting reports bp is winding down cleanup operations despite evidence of fresh oil reaching sensitive wetlands. chris is live for us in louisiana. what is the latest on the effort to kill this well. >> reporter: we learned overnight that bp actually managed to seal several hydraulic lee in the procedure called the static kill. it has not started yet....

A test that was a precursor to the so-called static kill procedure. but bp releasing a statement tonight saying that as engineers prepare to start the injectivety test they discovered what bp is calling a small hydraulic leak in the capping system's hydraulic control system. bp says the test and the static kill will wait until the leak is fixed. possibly by tomorrow. but even before bp's engineers have tried, merely tried to pump mud and cement down the throat of the busted well, something it has tried and failed to do in similar fashion before, something it cannot now even start, the company ...