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Are Oil Spill Estimates Going Up Because the Spill Itself Is Getting Worse?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyWhy do estimates of the crude gushing from BP's Gulf oil spill keep spiraling upward? Even if you believe BP is nefarious and trying to put out low numbers, that may not be the only culprit. The timely blog The Oil Drum points out (hat tip Andrew Sullivan) that it's not just calculations of the spillage that are growing -- it's the spillage itself. It's "called erosion, and simply put, the oil and gas that are flowing out of the rock are bringing small amounts of that rock (in the form of sand) out with them," The Oil Drum writes. "Rocks that contain lots of oil are not that strong and are ...
Updated Gulf Oil Flow Estimate Is Much Worse: 60,000 Barrels Daily
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyJust before Obama was scheduled to address the nation on the BP oil spill on Tuesday night, the scientific team charged with measuring the daily oil flow rate in the Gulf of Mexico released their latest estimate and it isn't pretty: "Between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day" (1.47 million and 2.5 million U.S. gallons), according to the Flow Rate Technical Group. That's one and a half-times greater than the previous estimate of 20,000 to 40,000 barrels made less than a week ago (on June 10). It is a staggering seven-and-a-half times greater than the earliest, "worst case scenario" estimate of ...
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