Gulf oil spill maybe bigger than BP wants you to know

9 June 2010 9 June 2010

BonTrade

While BP is capturing more oil from the blown out, doomed Deepwater Horizon oil well with every passing day, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill maybe alot bigger than BP wants you to know about.

Scientists on a team analysing the oil spill flow said Tuesday that the amount of crude still escaping into the Gulf of Mexico may be considerably greater than what the government and BP have claimed.

Their assertions, combined with BP’s rush to build a bigger cap and its apparent difficulty in immediately processing all the oil being collected, have only added to the impression that the company is still floundering in dealing with the catastrophe.

The latest cap effort is capturing better than half of the oil spilling out of the oil well, based on the US government’s estimate that around 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons a day are leaking from the bottom of the sea.

A team of researchers and government officials assembled by the Coast Guard and run by the director of the US Geological Survey is studying the flow rate and hopes to present its latest findings in the coming days on what is already the biggest oil spill in US history.