The Flow Rate Technical Group, a special US government team was created to analyze the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak. This was thought wise after worries surfaced about British Petroleum low-balling the amount gushing from the damaged well.
They released some troubling calculations today.
The new calculation suggested that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.New York Times
This assessment, based on measurements taken before BP [British Petroleum] cut the riser pipe of the leaking well on June 3 to cap some of the flow, showed that approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been gushing into the Gulf each day. That is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.
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