q-4000. it goes into the back of the ship and they combust it right there. they force air in and burn it. you see the black smoke. we saw it yesterday. they re eliminating it at the source. you had about maybe 27,000 other barrels making its way up to the enterprise, and it s being captured by the enterprise, and the enterprise fuel there, the petroleum they re catching is captured and taken to the refineries. now we re at 50,000 barrels flowing directly into the gulf of mexico. it s an ugly situation. go ahead. what s next in their effort to try to stem that? apart from bp just tonight said they are trying to replace that cap. if that happens, we re just back to where we were. we have tens of thousands of gallons flowing into the gulf even if they re successful at resetting that cap, right? reporter: absolutely. you know, the cap is a little bit of good. it s not the solution.
60,000 barrels a day up. i m going to give you sort of an explanation as we go from left to right. first of all, that flare of flame that s coming out to the side, that s the enterprise there. they re burning off the natural gas. they re also capturing some of that 60,000 barrels. they estimate maybe upwards of 15,000 barrels, and they capture that there. and then we come over to the right there, and keith, that s like a mad max movie, when i m looking at it. they ve got about 10,000 barrels a day that going into a ship called the q-4000. and they re burning it right there. that s that black smoke coming off of the oil burning. the reason they re burning it is their goal is to eliminate it from getting to shore. and the belief is, if they burn it right here, then they don t have to worry about it making its way over into the shoreline about 50 or 80 miles from here. now, we ve got an underwater camera here. and what i m going to do is
first of all, that flare of flame that s coming out to the side, that s the enterprise there. they re burning off the natural gas. they re also capturing some of that 60,000 barrels. they estimate maybe upwards of 15,000 barrels, and they capture that there. and then we come over to the right there, and keith, that s like a mad max movie, when i m looking at it. they ve got about 10,000 barrels a day that going into a ship called the q-4,000. and they re burning it right there. that s that black smoke coming off of the oil burning. the reason they re burning it is their goal is to eliminate it from getting to shore. and the belief is, if they burn it right here, then they don t have to worry about it making its way over into the shoreline about 50 or 80 miles from here. now, we ve got an underwater
explanation as we go from left to right. first of all, that flare of flame that s coming out to the side, that s the enterprise there. they re burning off the natural gas. they re also capturing some of that 60,000 barrels. they estimate maybe upwards of 15,000 barrels, and they capture that there. and then we come over to the right there, and keith, that s like a mad max movie, when i m looking at it. they ve got about 10,000 barrels a day that going into a ship called the q-4000. and they re burning it right there. that s that black smoke coming off of the oil burning. the reason they re burning it is their goal is to eliminate it from getting to shore. and the belief is, if they burn it right here, then they don t have to worry about it making its way over into the shoreline about 50 or 80 miles from here. now, we ve got an underwater camera here. and what i m going to do is lower it down here. again, we re about say 1.7 miles
it, and the q 4,000, which is a system that siphons more oil out using a different methodology and burns it. the flare is so bright, we were able to see it from 10 miles out when i was out on the gulf of mexico. 204,000 barrels siphoned since june 3rd. tony hayward was having the worst possible day yesterday before a house senate sub committ committee. let s take a look at the press in london. hayward has the communication skills of a tax inspector, dry and arrogant. tony hayward does have any defenders, however. the london daily mail said,