is a little bit different, the equipment that you have to deal with is a little bit different, and of course that s why they had to make the transition spool on to the lmrp because that wasn t the typical arrangement that they d be looking for in a blowout and they did that, and then they at the same time were building the equipment to actually do this. and also, the steps that they did earlier, they actually learned from their mistakes in terms of the ice crystals that they had problems with and that sort of thing, they learned how to control that. so a lot of the success that you see right now is a result of the steps that they took before this. so they ve been doing this in a very careful step-wise fashion and i don t know why no one believes that, but it appears that way to me. yeah. well, i guess no one believes that because we ve seen this oil spilling into the gulf for the past 85 days and it is tough to get around those pictures. but will what they re doing now change the oil
right. the talking points we re getting from the oil industry is that this didn t take so long, or they didn t wait so long to do this, they ve been working for this all along. do you buy that, that they did not have this technology when this started and this is kind of a miraculous engineering job that they ve done quickly to solve the problem? oh, it s sort of a combination of miracle and also good planning. they did plan on doing something like this in the beginning. one of their first options similar to this was to remove the llmrp and put a blow-out preventer on top of the old blow-out preventer stack. and when they realized that would be more complicated, they came up with this new plan and they came up with it pretty quickly. they ve been working on this almost since day one. it takes a while to build it. and the reason why you don t have these things sitting on a rack somewhere is because every time you have a blowout, the situation that presents itself
the chairman, svanberg, is not. he s a very different person. you don t normally see the chairman of british companies getting involved in these kind of things. but the chairman himself wanted to get on british tv and make a few comments. when he said small people at the white house, it seems the wording issues are confusing people. but for now, tony hayward stays where he is. very good, jim. thanks very much. we ll continue to follow that story and give you everything we know on it. let s talk a little about what s going on in the gulf of mexico right now. i don t know if we have that picture that we so commonly see of the oil that s gushing out. thad allen, the incident commander, says they re now getting 70% of the oil that s coming out of there. 250,000 barrels siphoned in the last 24 hours. that s between the riser cap, the lmrp, the riser cap, the top hat, whatever you want to call
strike. we ve seen since last night a whole lot of active weather in this area. there were no injuries, all procedures were followed. this is according to bp. and as a precaution, the lower marine riser package, the lmrp, containment operation was shut down. all safety shutdown systems operated as designed. now, from what we understand, this has not started up yet again. they re still conducting final safety and operational insurances inspections and bp is telling us they expect the collection of oil to resume this afternoon. but for the moment, the derrick which is the pump on top of the rig that is on top of this oil collection operation caught fire or something there had a fire on it. they ve extinguished it but haven t started it back again. so right now, oil is not being siphoned to the top. today s mission possible. reid sandridge is the man behind the year of giving project. he was unemployed and yet he