Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE)

By the end of June, BP hopes to have the following arrangements in place:

1. New well cap with improved sealing mechanism
2. New seafloor manifold feeding production to a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel
3. Shuttle tankers supporting FPSO
4. Alternative flow path via choke and kill lines back to the Q4000 support vessel

The challenge will be minimizing production system downtime and the associated spikes in spillage, particularly during hurricane evacuations.