Press briefing and teleconference to provide operational update on ongoing Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response efforts, Adm. Thad Allen, National Incident Commander, August 1, 2010 at 3:30 pm EDT: Well, the ‘static kill’ is not the end all be all. In fact, ‘kill’ may even be a misnomer… What we’re really doing is, we’re going to be conducting a static test and see if the well can have mud pumped into it at a very low rate.