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
production platforms off the new cap and that will allow us to shield the environment from a massive discharge of oil thus far. but the ability of the well to hold pressure whether it s low or high is very instructive on how we re going to penetrate the well and amount of mud and the weight of the mud in how it could vary and how they could plug that with cement. not so much of an impact on the relief well being drilled, as much as we could inform the way that we re actually going to conduct the kill itself because we will have imperical pressure readings and we ll understand to a greater certainty the condition of the wellbore. hang on, she may want to follow up on that. didn t look it was responsive from your nonverbals. i understand the well is blown, but this the entire key issue on all of this is controlling pressure from the reservoir. okay.
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
range of 60,000 barrels a day based on the new rate we developed years ago. they provided a plan to us. the capping stack that is on right now is actually part of the containment plan that we ordered them to provide. while we had the opportunity to potentially shut in the well, if the readings are correct, what this really does for us is give us four different outlets to go to four different production platforms and the capacity to us low us to cover 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, which is above the maximum floor rate that we estimate right now. those are the two parts to that. operator, we can go ahead and take phone calls from line now. to answer a question on the phone lines, please, press star 1. you have a question from the associated press. thank you very much. admiral, can you give us a little idea right now from what you ve seen from this latest effort on whether this, did this cap is going to work as it s