in the middle the oil is not coming out of the big black pipe in tid manile anymore coming out of other valves and places, yes, but we know that this is the first indication that the integrity test had started from the mouths of the from the bp people, this now is taking place just as they thought so. and now, even as we look at it, where the oil was leaking out, the one yellow pipe, that is the kill, and the choke pipes and i even believe some of the oil, the amount of oil has lessened just in the last few minutes, so i can see some oil escaping, but in the middle of the screen right there, that is where all of the big oil was coming out, and that now has stopped. dramatic move. quickly, chad. we have on twitter a tweet from bp, and i m going the read it. you tell the viewers what this means. we have closed in our containment and collection systems through the q-4000 and helix producer to prepare for integrity tests. earlier they sent a tweet what
the kill line to the helix producer and choke line to the q 4000. okay? last week as you remember we removed the stub of the riser pipe and we put in what we called a flange spool. on top of that what will happen, which was significant, is we ve now seeded the capping stack here and basically it has three rams, a mini blowout preventer, also has a kill line and a choke line. okay? so you basically have a small bop on top of the larger bop that is legacy to the deepwater horizon. here is how we intend to do the well integrity test. we will slowly take down production from the q 4000 and the helix producer later on today to the point where they are not producing anymore. that will force the oil up through the ploeout preventer into the capping stack. at that point the kill line, the choke line, and the top of the stack will be open. there will be product releasing from there. that s the reason we know we have the skimmers and additional
everyone, absolutely everybody, and i can assure you that all of bp want to move on with this as quickly as we can to get this flow stopped, and we need to make sure we get you guys information as quickly as we can, and hopefully we can get it faster next time. are the q 14 and the other producers shut down as well? no, they are capturing oil. so the q-4,000 on a typical day will capture 8,000 barrels. as of late this morning, the helix producer was up to a rate of 12,000 barrels a day. of course, we also have the drill ship enterprise that we can bring back in if necessary to put back in over the cap, and it has demonstrated that it can effectively capture 15,000. i should also say that the helix producer is still ramping up, and it should ultimately be able to capture between 20 and 25,000. during the testing process, will those two operations ever
water full on the faucet and you shut it off quick, and you hear all of the pipes going through. they don t want that shutter to happen at 60 psi like your house, but 8,000 psi, and slowly over 48hours will bring the pressure up and up and up to make sure that every piece of integrity and the smartest and the best people are on this. to answer your question, i believe they know what they are doing. all right. i want to show the viewers side-by-side, what we are seeing right now, the live cameras, and what we saw a while ago and i want you to look at what we are slowing the viewers. show or explain what is on the left, and what is on the right. on the left, the unabated except for what the q-4000 and the helix producer was sucking out of the bottom of the before. on the left is the before. on the right there is the same pipe smaller in size, because the camera is farther away, but
you think the 80,000 barrel a day four vessel system will be ready before the end of july? yes. but the other question about the sick-hour threshold. that is a rule of thumb. i think we re going to have to take look at what the pressure readings are. there is a general window that if you have sustainable pressure for six hours, you reach a decision threshold where you open up and vent the hydrocarbons and bring the helix producer in and the q-4000 on line. there is an decision that needs to be made to release pressure it would be made by venting hydrocarbons. when does the six hour time frame start ticking down? let me be very clear to everybody. that s a rule. thumb we established to assess the pressures. nobody will have a stop watch. dark the six hour window could start, right if you start