put in place before we finish building out the infrastructure to support the four platform production. so we're somewhat limited right now. but we have the cap in place and are finishing the infrastructure to take us to the 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day production capacity. >> joining us tonight is bob cavnar, a former oil industry executive who now covers the industry at dailyhurricane.com. thanks to your time, bob. bob, could you elaborate on what admiral allen said about how those lines, those hose lines in effect that would be going down to the cap might not be able to carry this kind of load? apparently, getting this stuff up to the surface isn't as easy as some people might think. >> you know, lawrence, it is getting curiouser and curiouser the more i listen to both sides, either admiral allen or bp talk about this particular issue. this cap was designed to add two more production lines to the two existing production lines out of the old blowout preventer. if you'll recall, they used the