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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...

The depth of the entire casing to push it back down. we have been watching the underwater cameras and lost sight of them, because nothing was happening, but now the underwater cameras are very important, because we don't want to see anything floating around in here, and plumes of oil or mud or gas, because that means that something that will have ruptured. something in the -- because, wolf, they are adding more pressure to this. you just can't take mud, force it into some place down at 6900 or even more than that psi trying to push up. you have the push it higher than that to push it back down...

The mud will not push this oil back, but if that happens, they have the fail safe mechanism ready to go where they are drilling that relief well about a week from now where they will intersect that bp well and then begin filling it up with cement. a huge cement stopper to end the threat once and for all, and the procedure will have the same effect in killing the well, but because of the caution they have instituteded in proceeding with killing this well, they say it is not going to be done until that relief well is finished, and they have that cement plug in place. >> we will keep our fingers ...

Bit, if you think of it that way. now, think of how an old antique antenna, and i guess i have one on the old car, but whatever, and it is going to be bigger and bigger and bigger, and as you pull it out, it is smaller and smaller and smaller. well, the casings are going to be smaller all of the way down and the casing is the protection from the outside of the rock here to where the oil would have gone had this been a successful well. they are going to ill if theicatith -- going to fill up the casing with mud, and they cannot fill the gap between where the rock was and the thin part of the cas...