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the only thing i was worried about was the second piece of drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday, and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so it s gone well. if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court, in terms of how much spill there actually was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and penalties? it s very possible, keith, because if they do succeed in getting this shut in, they ll never open it again before they get it killed from the bottom with the relief well. but i have to tell you, i m real concerned about this shut-in integrity test they re going to plan in the morning, because of the down hole damage that we ve talked about for the last several week
new cap. we ve been following all the developments. what s going on right now, vivian? two big crucial elements. the first, like you re talking about, they re lowering this spool, it s this giant spool that s more than a story tall. it s more than 15,000 pounds and share slowly lowering it in place over the well head. now, the second big element we re talking about is the start-up of a big oil recovery ship. this is how they expect to collect more oil than they ever have before. so, listen, in the meantime, the oil is flowing freely, so how is bp? are they doing anything to counteract that? they are. they are amazing the worlds largest deployment of skimmers. this is 48 skimmers right at the well site. they re sucking up the oil, more than 25,000 barrels yesterday. 25,000, still how much do they expect to capture? 25,000, is that going to guest most of it, all of it? should be all offis. they re talking 60,000 to 80,000
drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so it s gone well. if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court in terms of how much spill there actually was, obviously, the number that would determine fines and penalties? it s very possible, keith, because if they do succeed in getting this shut in, they ll never open it again before they get it killed from the bottom with the relief well. but i have to tell you, i m real concerned about this shut in integrity test they re going to plan in the morning, because of the down hole damage we ve talked about for the last several weeks, plus there are some components in that blowout preventer stack,
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