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admiral, can you give us a little idea right now from what you ve seen from this latest effort of whether this did this cap is going to work as it s intend or whether you will have to go back to full production with four vessels? what can you tell us about the outcome of this based on the leak you found, you know, the little bit of delay that you ve had and the pressure readings that you ve seen a little bit of. let me be perfectly clear on this. the intention of the capping stack was never to close in the well per se. it creates the opportunity if we have the right pressure readings to be able to shut in the well. the best reason to be able to shut in the well now in addition to blocking the oil from coming into the environment is it allows us to abandon the site if there s a hurricane, but at a minimum, we told bp to provide a plan that gave us redundancy and
the entire key issue on all. this is controlling pressure from the reservoir, and the pressure out of the reservoir right now and i m giving you a range between 11,000 to 12,000 pounds per square inch pushing up into the macondo wellbore as a result of that well that was drilled. how is the pressure being controlled? they lost pressure and that s what caused the event to begin with on the 20th of april. we had a cap recovering some of the oil, but we ve been venting oil, and when you vent oil that releases pressure and the lousiest, easiest analogy i can give you is putting a thumb on a hose to try to lower the pressure on the stream when watering the garden. we have tried to close off the hose but we can t do it completely because if you do it
if they get to it let s hope they do. pressures will be way up by then. when they close the top choke, that will be the final one that will keep this completely closed. there will be no more oil coming out of this well. man, chad, that is good stuff. congress is working on ways to help you financially. is that a little scary? we ll get the latest from capitol hill. first, a random moment in a minute. to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. sir? finding everything okay? i work for a different insurance company. my auto policy s just getting a little too expensive. with progressive, you get the name your price option, so we build a policy to fit your budget. wow! the price gun. ah! wish we had this. we d just tell people what to pay. yeah, we re the only ones that do. i love your insurance! bill?
stopped. the cap that was on top of the blowout preventer for so many weeks, is gone. it wasn t working all that well, anyway. oil is still going around. the top of the ploeout preventer, they cut it off. it wasn t very straight. it was cut off because the rovs were there, they cut it off and it didn t work very well. now it s gone and they brought a brand-new top to the blowout preventer that s a good seal. a good seal on the blowout preventer, a good seal to the new cap where the valves are. the oil is still coming out here. but it s not coming out of the very top where it was coming out for so very long. as they close these valves, they re closing the valves here. there will be no more oil coming out. no more oil going to the ships. the q 4000, the helix producer? done, they re not working any more. they re not pumping any more oil out of here. that s stopped to try to get the pressures up. and as the pressure comes up, we will know that if this thing maintains its integrity, all th