And the final steps will be taken later in August when the relief well is completed.
This does not, though, have to do with -- this is not connected to the relief well.
The experience has been that when you drill one relief well, potentially you keep on missing the mark.
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Meanwhile, drilling on the relief well has been stopped at 17, 840 feet for the moment during the sensitive tests.
This is until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely.
But the well may not be completely sealed off until at least until August, when BP hopes to complete a relief well.
Despite the optimism about the relief well, Pope is still a skeptic.
And a relief well being drilled to staunch the flow is on target to be finished by early August, a senior BP executive has said.
And would that have helped in the current situation, had BP actually had that relief well up on line even before the spill took place?
So far, the first relief well is only about 1, 000 metres or so below the sea bed, and the second has only just been started.
"I know they're working hard at it right now, " he told CNN in an interview aboard one of the drilling platforms working on the relief well.
So, for example, when they said they would drill one relief well to stem this leak we demanded a backup and ordered them to drill two.
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The stock was buoyed on reports over the weekend in the British newspapers that BP thinks it is two weeks ahead of schedule with its relief well.
Attempts to use new methods to contain just one of three leakage sites have met with little success, and the process of drilling a relief well will take two or three months.
Once the blowout preventer is replaced to mitigate the risk of pressure in the well, it will take about four days to drill through the relief well and intercept the main well, based on statements from Allen.
You could either do it separately if the integrity of the wellbore has been maintained through the explosion, and if not, it helps when the relief well intersects to the well in having a separate point of pressurization for mud and cement.
So we will continue to press BP and draw on our best minds and resources to capture the rest of the oil until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely.
And why that's important is a whole host of reasons, but particularly we want to judge the integrity for the use of the blowout preventer on the well either for a capping procedure now or in assistance in the capping procedure with the relief well.
The next step will be -- and, again, these tests will be important in determining those next steps -- is the decisions to attempt a kill using this blowout preventer or using this blowout preventer simply to assist the relief well drilling, containment and capping procedures.
To what degree is the structure and the integrity of the well -- how can that -- can that sustain either assisting with a kill operation as it relates to the relief well, or can you try a separate kill operation using this cap and this blowout preventer?
Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
The President will meet with those folks and have a chance to update, I think, the region on where we are both from a relief well standpoint -- obviously the weather has -- the weather will likely delay the relief well completion by two to three days, but we anticipate that the work will continue again over the weekend.
Events like the Fukushima nuclear incident and the Indonesia tsunami made clear that the U.S. remains uniquely capable of delivering non-traditional security like humanitarian assistance and disaster relief as well.
We'll enhance our ability to train, exercise, and operate with allies and partners across the region, and that, in turn, will allow us to work with these nations to respond even faster to a wide range of challenges, including humanitarian crises and disaster relief, as well as promoting security cooperation across the region.
We were together on his birthday, and we actually heaved a sigh of relief and thought, well, we made it this long.
Even so, the Negri Sembilan government last week ordered a media blackout on the affecte d villages as well as relief centers and hospitals.
Jewelry designer Alexis Bittar will donate 100% of the proceeds from his site this week to the Catholic Relief Fund, as well as all of the proceeds from his store sales on Thursday.
Rangel, of course, voted against the Bush tax cuts, and he is more favorably inclined toward tax relief for low and middle income families (as well as toward government spending) than toward relief for high income folks, investors and very large estates.
These TV breaks, which also popped up throughout "RoboCop" -- and are not unlike television commercials -- provide a narrative device as well as comic relief.
Driven by a better than expected reading on manufacturing activity from the Chicago PMI in the U.S., as well as continued relief that the debt crisis in Greece has been at least temporarily defused, U.S. and world stocks shot higher again on Thursday.
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