ray henry, associated press. about those documents that came out last night talking about the methane, possibility of that causing the accident. is bp investigating the methane bubble as a cause of this? i should clarify. there s the admiral and lars have discussed numerous times, the government has an investigation. we have an internal investigation trying to figure out what went wrong here. i m not personally involved in that. my role since the very beginning is to manage our response. i can t actually comment on the status of investigations. this is for anyone, actually. i understand there are foreign offers of support and some are actually being actively taken up on including the boom, but as well as oil cleanups and other areas.
we have oil around chandeleur island and our cleanup team is responding to that. in certain areas, what was originally reported as oil has been confirmed to be algae. offshore we did complete five successful burns yesterday. we actually skimmed over 17,500 barrels of an oily water mix. i would end by saying we are focused on stopping the floeshgs minimum migz the impacts environmental and economic, and about keeping the public informed of our activities. thank you. at this point we ll open up for questions. ray henry, associated prechlts condition you explain a little about the hydrate situation? what exactly happened last night and what the status of the dome is now? where do you go from here? yes. what we did last night was, we