2.5 Million Gallons A Day

June 15th, 2010 (7) Posted By Erik Wong.

Gulf Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.

A government panel of scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons daily of oil. The figures move the government’s worst-case estimates more in line with what an independent team had previously thought was the maximum size of the spill.

“This estimate brings together several scientific methodologies and the latest information from the sea floor, and represents a significant step forward in our effort to put a number on the oil that is escaping from BP’s well,” Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement.

The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scientists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe near the sea floor that was believed to be restricting the flow of oil, just as a bend in a garden hose reduces water flow. BP officials has estimated that cutting the kinked pipe likely increased the flow by up 20 percent.

The pipe was removed so BP could install a containment cap that is trapping leaking oil and drawing it a ship waiting on the ocean surface.

The new numbers are based on a combination of scientific data, including an analysis of high-resolution video taken by underwater robots, pressure meters, sonar, and measurements of oil collected by the containment device on top of the well.

It is the fourth—and perhaps not last—time the federal government has had to increase its estimate of how much oil is gushing. At one point, the federal government claimed only 42,000 gallons were spilling a day and then it upped the number to 210,000 gallons.

As of Tuesday, the maximum amount of oil that has gushed out of the well since the April 20 explosion is 116 million gallons, according to the estimates by scientists advising the federal government.

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  • karl anglin

    Why didn’t President Obama take help
    from the Dutch before it got to this?

  • The Sentinel at the Gate

    42k gallons, then 210K gallons, then 1.47M gallons and now 2.52M gallons per day.

    Sounds like the floating estimates for the fucking government run Healthcare costs, doesn’t it? Shit stain Progressives ain’t very good at math!

  • http://thecaptiansquarters.blogspot.com/ CAPT-DAX

    The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth’s crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.

    Dr. James P. Wicktrom

    http://doctorjamespwickstrom.blogspot.com/

    I find it amazing that Marxist Obama is still in the Gulf doing public relations work trying to calm the masses down, who are sensing GREAT DANGER at this time.

    Obama is not telling the masses any truth whatsoever, in fact, he is telling them just the opposite. Obama is allowing the masses to be ‘sitting ducks’ for the carnage that lies right ahead of them.

    Obama is like the Grim Reaper making his presence before the great carnage.:mad: :mad: :gun: :gun:

    • http://thecaptiansquarters.blogspot.com/ CAPT-DAX

      I’m in Tampa FL. I’m Bugging out two Weeks. :mad:

  • http://hyperinflation-watch.blogspot.com ZenDraken

    The Oil Drum is a great source: http://theoildrum.com/

    They’re saying the well bore below the sea floor is being eroded away by the flow of oil. That would account for the increasing numbers.

    The scariest scenario is that the sea floor could collapse and release the whole reservoir. They’re not talking about this in the MSM of course.

  • CPLViper

    Could have been nuked and sealed off by now … just a thought.

    • Giorgi

      yea, there was a thought like that floating around after the first attempt to seal the flow by golf balls and shredded tires had failed. a small tactical nuke, a 10-15kt range would do a job if placed within 300-400 meters.