did bp have any quality control on these parts before they installed them on the cap that would allow them to detect a leak, a hole or anything like that? if not, will there be in the future or what were they if there were any? i m not sure i can tell you exactly on thatpert pop we ll get that information and get back to you. i do know this. a lot going on here has been designed and engineered for the first time to deal with this particular problem. the capping stack was a custom made stack that includes three rams. i would call it a mini blowout preventer. but it also includes a kill on a choke line which duplicates the kill on the choke lines. i do know that in order to make this system up on the existing lower marine riser package after we removed that nub of the riser pipe that had been cut off, that
intended or whether you will have to go back to full production with four vessels. what can you tell us about the outcome of this based on the leak you found? we want to take you to the floor of the senate where right now the senate is voting on the procedural vote for the reform. three republicans have said they will support the democrats effort to reform wall street. susan collins, olympia snowe and scott brown. and right now we are watching the vote take place. this is, again, a procedural vote to avoid a gop filibuster and we will see a final vote, according to luke russert and our political team, later today. we ll keep an eye on the situation. we will be right back after a quick break. switching to chevrolet? room for eight and all sorts of space behind the third row. they just thought of everything. it just feels like a really solid car. that should come in handy. it s the chevrolet summer event and anyone can get the traverse they want. nah-uh. this one s mine.
our forces and assess where the boom might have been blown ashore with the recent heavy weather that we had. and it s given us a chance to consolidate our forces and make sure we can redouble our efforts on shore cleanup. with that, i will be glad to answer any questions you may have. ed lavin deendera with cnn. early on in this process, were you able to get any kind of pressure readings or any indications of how that might go or will that not begin until the integrity tests begins? when we close the manifold and the oil was still exiting through the drill choke, is what they call that. we had just started to crank it down when we saw the leak. so, we won t get real pressure readings until we close the choke valve. one last question, apologize if you answered this before. but could this integrity test cause any, you mentioned the
and the pressure out of the reservoir right now. i will give you a range. i think between 11,000 and 12,000 pounds per square inch pushing up into the wellbore as a result of the well that was drilled. now, the issue is, how is that pressure being controlled? obviously, they lost pressure and that s what caused the event to begin on the 20th of april. we had a cap that has been recovering some of the oil, but we have been venting oil and when you vent oil, that releases pressure and the lousiest, easiest analogy i can give you is putting your thumb on top of a hose to get a higher pressure stream. we have been slowly using mechanisms to try and close off the hose, but we can t do it a completely because if you do it completely then there s a pressure further down in the hose that you may cause a leak. so, what we are trying to do now is actually get physical evidence because we don t know the quicondition of the wellbor and the way you do that is
and start to slowly close the choke line and take the pressure readings at that time, as we intended to do. just to let you know what happened, this is the choke line. off of the capping stack. as you know, this comes out of the assembly and goes up. if you ve seen the video, this is that big yellow device with the curve pipe that goes up with the oil coming out of it. it connects back to the capping stack down here and there is an ass assembly where this meets together. the entire choke assembly was removed and replaced overnight. they are checking this right now to make sure it is ready to go and we will go into the process that i just talked about earlier. and we will know, we will apply pressure to this as we close the kill valve. exactly how successful they have been in closing this leak and moving forward with the test itself. as i stated earlier yesterday,