In Kent Wells’ August 4th update he says “We now have it to a situation where there is no pressure at the Q4000, so it’s static at the sea – at the sea level”. If it is static at sea level and the lines are still full of mud then [I]if[/I] they had to disconnect it wouldn’t be static at the mud-line … am I understanding that correctly? Why not pump until there is no excess pressure at the mud-line, so that even if for some reason the Q4000 has to EDS and the BOP fails there wouldn’t be any flow. Or is an EDS failure regarded as too improbable to be worth worrying about?