(CNN) -- BP reported problems controlling the undersea well at the heart of the largest oil spill in U.S. history and won a delay in testing a critical piece of equipment in March, according to documents released Sunday.

"We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe. We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass," Scherie Douglas, a BP regulatory advisor, told the district engineer for the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service in a March 10 e-mail.

In a follow-up e-mail to the district engineer, Frank Patton, Douglas reported the company wanted to get a plug set in the well before testing the blowout preventer, the massive device used to shut down the well in case of an emergency.

"With the give and take of the well and hole behavior we would feel much more comfortable getting at least one of the two plugs set in order to fully secure the well prior to testing BOPs," she wrote.

When Patton told BP he could not delay a test any longer than it took to bring the well under control, the company won a postponement from David Trocquet, the MMS district manager in New Orleans, Louisiana, the documents show. Trocquet ordered BP to make sure its cement plug was set up and to verify its placement, according to his reply. The messages do not indicate how long the test was postponed.

The exchange was among the documents released Sunday by leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking into the disaster that killed 11 workers aboard the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon and uncapped a gusher that is now fouling the northern Gulf of Mexico. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer since the explosion, resulting in up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) spewing into the Gulf every day.

Answer the following questions:
1. who is Frank Patton?
2. who sent him an email?
3. what did it say?
4. what is BP having problems with?
5. what is a blowout preventer?
6. who gave BP more time?
7. what is the House Energy and Commerce Committee looking into?
8. did anyone die?
9. how many?
10. how much oil has spilled?
11. where is this happening?
12. why hasnt it been stopped?
1. district engineer
2. Douglas
3. the company wanted to get a plug set in the well
4. controlling the undersea well
5. the massive device used to shut down the well in an emergency
6. David Trocque
7. the disaster
8. Yes
9. 11
10. 798,000 gallons every day
11. the Gulf
12. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer