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To be greasily negligent. a crucial test is being rescheduled until tomorrow at the earliest, a test that needs to take place before the company goes ahead with the static kill plan to seal off the well. bp says a small leak was discovered that needs to be prepared. tom foreman joins me now from new orleans with a look at what that static kill involves. reporter: federal authorities are preparing out in the gulf, off the shore here for this test. they ll pump small bursts of another type of oil in that well to see if they can force it down against the current, so to speak, two miles below the well ahead into the actual oil reservoir, if they have no nasty surprises during that injectivity test, that s what it s called, then the static kill should begin tomorrow. that will involve pumping in a steady stream of heavy drilling fluid or mud, as it s called. and then increasing the pressure until that mud is pushing the oil back down into the reservoir. you see how it goes out through ....
Test. they ll pump small bursts of another type of oil in that well to see if they can force it down against the current, so to speak, two miles below the well ahead into the actual oil reservoir, if they have no nasty surprises during that injectivity test, that s what it s called, then the static kill should begin tomorrow. that will involve pumping in a steady stream of heavy drilling fluid or mud, as it s called. and then increasing the pressure until that mud is pushing the oil back down into the reservoir. you see how it goes out through the blowout preventer there? if it goes all the way through, they might decide then to go ahead and pump cement in to seal off that main pipe. it looks like the top kill that failed back in may but there is this difference. back then the oil was just pouring out, stopping it was ....
Different from the top kill they tried once before. it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. that s the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so they re trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. that s different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing just a few moments ago, randy, where they talked about a test that we haven t heard a whole lot about, called the injectivity test. what they re going to be doing is checking to see whether or not they can force the oil in the ruptured well back into the reservo reservoir. what they re going to do is start pumping in that mud right into that containment cap, down into the containment cap and into the ruptured well. and if that process goes well, they re going to be taking pressure readings durin ....
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