Scientist: BP Well Could Be Leaking 100,000 Barrels Of Oil A Day

Donnachaidh

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Wed Jun-09-10 08:56 AM
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Scientist: BP Well Could Be Leaking 100,000 Barrels Of Oil A Day

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/9/scientist_bp_well_could_be_leaking

On Tuesday BP and government officials claim that BP�s new cap system has collected over 51,000 barrels of oil since Friday. Tony Hayward has said he is hopeful the new measures would soon contain a major portion of the oil gushing out of the ruptured well, but scientist Ira Leifer says the oil may be gushing out at a rate of more than 100,000 barrels a day, a number that BP once called its worst-case scenario. Leifer is a researcher in the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of the government�s Flow Rate Technical Group.

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daylan b

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:17 AM
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1. At work, quesiton about video

Does it explain why his estimate is such an outlier when compared to the rest of the estimates?

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:21 AM
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2. 100,000 barrels per day: pretty soon you are talking about real numbers, like the

Exxon Valdez in less than three days. :cry:

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