This chart is a week old ... but at 5K barrels a day it's still less than 20K tonnes
Posted on 05/17/2010 6:23:55 PM PDT by FootBall
Spill/Tanker.....Location......Date......Tons of Oil
Gulf War oil spill Persian Gulf January 21, 1991 1,360,000–1,500,000 (around 10 million barrels)
Ixtoc I oil well Gulf of Mexico June 3, 1979–March 23, 1980 454,000–480,000 (3,328,000–3,518,000 barrels)
BP TransOcean oil well Gulf Of Mexico April 20, 2010 - Current (2,430,000 Barrels)
** One tonne of crude oil is roughly equal to 308 US gallons, or 7.33 barrels **
Good lord what a load.
Does this use the new 80,000 bbl/day wild-assed guess by ‘scientists’, or does it have some basis in fact?
Its at least 10 billion times worse than we can possibly conceive.
Seems to me that the laws of physics would step in here at some point. You can only force a finite amount of oil (and gas) through a pipe of a certain diameter at a given pressure in a given amount of time.
I wish someone who knows how would give us the facts on how much oil was spilled in WWII.
There were an awful lot of tankers torpedoed. I remember tar balls washing up on the beaches from the outer banks to Myrtle Beach.
We survived that.
I would be curious as to the volume.
only 3rd? let’s get that total up people!
My calculations show that is 90,000 barrels a day, that is 18 times the 5,000 barrels that had previously report. What else is DumBO lying about?
This chart is a week old ... but at 5K barrels a day it's still less than 20K tonnes
Enormous quantities of petroleum have also been released during warfare. Because petroleum and its refined products are critically important economic and industrial commodities, enemies have commonly targeted tankers and other petroleum-related facilities during wars. For example, during the World War II German submarines sank 42 tankers off the east coast of the United States, causing a total spillage of about 460,000 tons (417,000 metric tons) of petroleum and refined products. There were 314 attacks on oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq War of 1981–1987, 70% of them by Iraqi forces. The largest individual spill during that war occurred when Iraq damaged five tankers and three production wells at the offshore Nowruz complex, resulting in the spillage of more than 287,000 tons (260,000 metric tons) of petroleum into the Gulf of Arabia.
Read more: Oil Spills - Oil Pollution http://science.jrank.org/pages/4848/Oil-Spills-Oil-pollution.html#ixzz0oFFXpHdg
BP oil spill calculations ......global warming data....ain’t buying it.
The “source” used for this story is a homemade ‘Youtube’ video that uses what sounds like the music from “The X-Files”.
Why did you post this and run away? Since when is a YouTube video an article source?
This Calculation is inline to what scientist are calculating..
In a contradiction to the news conference held by BP & NOAA, A United Kingdom publication called “The Guardian” is claiming that BP is capturing about 1,000 barrels of leaking oil per day, but with that said, STILL maybe up to 99,000 barrels of oil are still leaking into the Gulf. Who is telling the truth?
http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2010/05/14/bp-breaks-down-70k-barrels-per-day/
“A Purdue University researcher, analyzing underwater footage, tells NPR that he thinks the pace of the spill is 70,000 barrels per day, more than ten times the 5,000 cited by BP.”
A little more than the 80 mbo/d WAG.
Anything to blow it out of proportion, sensationalize, headline, soundbite, grandstand or otherwise.
Some more of those headlines were debunked during today’s briefing. The tar balls that floated up in Florida weren’t from the spill and, it appears, neither are the ones from Texas. The “giant subsea oil plume” appears to have almost no hydrocarbons in it. We are now in our 29th day of “imminent disaster”, I wonder how long it’ll take the public to figure out they’re being “had”.
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