did bp have any quality control on these parts before they installed them on the cap that would allow them to detect a leak, a hole or anything like that? if not, will there be in the future or what were they if there were any? i m not sure i can tell you exactly on thatpert pop we ll get that information and get back to you. i do know this. a lot going on here has been designed and engineered for the first time to deal with this particular problem. the capping stack was a custom made stack that includes three rams. i would call it a mini blowout preventer. but it also includes a kill on a choke line which duplicates the kill on the choke lines. i do know that in order to make this system up on the existing lower marine riser package after we removed that nub of the riser pipe that had been cut off, that
not sort of fake projects where you re building stuff for no reason. jon: liz, thank you very much, good talking to you. jenna: we re starting with a news briefing here in admiral thad allen with an update of what s going on in the gulf. let s listen in: consider outcomes, once that was done i gave the order with slight modifications to include some requirements for seismic testing, akao sing testing, to go ahead and proceed last night. the sequence on how that test proceed was to take the q4000 helix producer off line to have all the oil and hydrocarbons coming up through the blowout preventer into the new capping stack. at that point there were three ways for oil to come out of the capping stack. that was directly through the top of the capping stack itself, through the kill line and the choke line. in sequence, we closed the middle ram of the capping
and start to slowly close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time, as we intended to do. just to let you know what happened, this is the choke line. off of the capping stack. as you know, this comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you ve seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curve pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here and there is an ass assembly where this meets together. the entire choke assembly was removed and replaced overnight. they are checking this right now to make sure it is ready to go and we will go into the process that i just talked about earlier. and we will know, we will apply pressure to this as we close the kill valve. exactly how successful they have been in closing this leak and moving forward with the test itself. as i stated earlier yesterday,
range of 60,000 barrels a day based on the new rate we developed years ago. they provided a plan to us. the capping stack that is on right now is actually part of the containment plan that we ordered them to provide. while we had the opportunity to potentially shut in the well, if the readings are correct, what this really does for us is give us four different outlets to go to four different production platforms and the capacity to us low us to cover 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, which is above the maximum floor rate that we estimate right now. those are the two parts to that. operator, we can go ahead and take phone calls from line now. to answer a question on the phone lines, please, press star 1. you have a question from the associated press. thank you very much. admiral, can you give us a little idea right now from what you ve seen from this latest effort on whether this, did this cap is going to work as it s
dispersance are certainly an issue. they have their own inherent toxicity, much more mild than the oil itself, but the combination of the oil and the dispersant actually has a combined cumulative toxicity that s more than the sum of the individual toxicity. so there s questions about whether to use the dispersant at depth in the first place and on the surface as well, but the other thing i think going on this morning that they installed this brand new capping stack and it sprung a leak within a couple of hours of it being used, i think bp can now also stand for bad plumbers. i think it really calls into question the entire veracity of the entire operation. i think this is a real risk to try to shut this thing in right now and not just produce the oil up to the surface vessels which is certainly the safer and perhaps wiser choice to take. you know, there s been some