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New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The numbers on every front of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster keep their steady march upward to staggering proportions, and Friday was no exception.
As the oil spewed, so did more grim statistics.
Researchers have doubled estimates of how much oil has been gushing from a ruptured BP well, reporting that up to 40,000 barrels, or 1.7 million gallons, a day may have escaped for weeks.
If the latest estimate is correct, that would mean 90.1 million gallons have spewed in the 53 days since the rig exploded. That's more than eight times the amount spilled by the supertanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.
The oil and the oil plumes has already messed up the chances of life being able to survive in the region quite a bit, throwing a nuke in there won't do as much damage anymore compared to a 100% habitable area. Also, the radiation will be slowed down because it will be underwater and affect just that area compared to letting the oil continue to leak and spread around the whole world.
Last edited by 46_valentinor; 06-11-2010 at 08:11 PM.
I don't know if you guys watched the video I posted, but in a round about way they said basically the well can not be plugged.
Remember when they tried to put mud into it? When they said it was suppose to take a couple days and they will know, but then all of sudden they said it didn't work? Well they had a 30,000 hp pump, pumping drilling mud into the well. When they did that, the mud started to come up through the sea floor. So basically they have cracked the earths crust and compromised the integrity of the well. So it has to keep flowing or people will find out that they have done more damage.
The countdown is on till this get's into the Atlantic. Not that they would tell us if it has or not.
U.S. Gives BP 48 Hours to Boost Containment Capacity
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June 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Coast Guard gave BP Plc 48 hours to find more capacity to contain its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after scientists and researchers doubled their estimates of the spill’s size.
BP’s efforts don’t “provide the needed collection capacity consistent with the revised flow estimates,” said Rear Admiral James A. Watson, the federal on-scene coordinator, in a letter dated June 11. It was sent to Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, and was released today.
BP plans to almost triple its capacity to capture oil from its leaking well to as much as 50,000 barrels a day by mid-July, the Coast Guard said yesterday. The plan calls for two pairs of production ships and shuttle tankers to replace a cluster of vessels at the site, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s national incident commander for the spill, said yesterday at a press conference in Washington.
The well was releasing between 20,000 barrels and 40,000 barrels a day, twice as much as previously estimated, before BP cut away a kinked pipe on June 3, U.S. government scientists and independent researchers reported June 10. They are still studying the current leak rate. BP recovered about 7,570 barrels of oil during the first 12 hours of today.
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Based on government estimates, the drillship isn’t capturing as much of the spill as BP predicted earlier this month. In a June 4 interview with CBS, Suttles said the system would be capable of capturing as much as 90 percent of the flow.
The additional ships planned next month will give BP backup pumping ability in the event that one of the vessels can’t be used, Allen said.
“The issue is for BP to move quickly,” Allen said.
In its application for the well, London-based BP told the government it was prepared for a worst-case oil spill of 250,000 barrels a day.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama, meantime, talked today and Cameron expressed his “sadness” at the “human and environmental catastrophe” caused by the spill.
“The president and prime minister agreed that BP should continue -- as they have pledged -- to work intensively to ensure that all sensible and reasonable steps are taken as rapidly as practicable to deal with the consequences of this catastrophe,” Cameron’s office in London said in an e-mailed statement.
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