Continuing the BP oil spill saga...

The New York Times is reporting that BP is getting ready to replace the cap with a better one...Will it work on the first attempt?

If all goes as planned, the new cap could effectively contain the leaking well by sometime next week. But like other engineering efforts in the 11 weeks since oil began pouring into the gulf after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, there is no guarantee that technicians, using remotely operated submersibles 5,000 feet underwater, will succeed in installing the cap. If the procedure fails, the old cap would have to be reinstalled.

That cap is now diverting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day to a surface ship, the Discoverer Enterprise. This amount “will have to be released while we’re putting the new cap on,” Admiral Allen said. The work should not affect a second system that is collecting 8,000 to 9,000 barrels a day from a pipe lower on the blowout preventer.