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
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
effect. and that is, let no crisis go unused. this is an opportunity for a president who wants to bankrupt the coal industry and get rid of the oil and gas industry, to shut down offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico. i think the other thing that we re seeing is, is this i don t know why it is in this country. but we have a plan from 1994, that says how we re going to deal with these fires and these platforms collapsing. janet napolitano did not implement that plan until seven days after the leaks first started. and then we find out we don t have the equipment. i mean to me it s like katrina all over. because people at the top are not paying attention to what s going on on the ground. what do you make of bp s role here with regard to the ploeout preventer and the fact that that was sort of the final way to deal with the situation as horrific as this? do you think they had the right management? were they following procedure? whs the blame lie in terms of letting this catastrophe o
i think one, we re seeing rahm emanual rule number one taking effect. and that is, let no crisis go unused. this is an opportunity for a president who wants to bankrupt the coal industry and get rid of the oil and gas industry, to shut down offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico. i think the other thing that we re seeing is, is this i don t know why it is in this country. but we have a plan from 1994, that says how we re going to deal with these fires and these platforms collapsing. janet napolitano did not implement that plan until seven days after the leaks first started. and then we find out we don t have the equipment. i mean to me it s like katrina all over. because people at the top are not paying attention to what s going on on the ground. what do you make of bp s role here with regard to the ploeout preventer and the fact that that was sort of the final way to deal with the situation as horrific as this? do you think they had the right management? were they following proce