Posted on 05/27/2010 7:40:36 AM PDT by FootBall
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- United State Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt said a team of scientists and government officials reviewing video footage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico put the flow rate of about 12,000 to 25,000 barrels a day.
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We11, that’s 444,000 to 888,000 barrels.
A barrel holds 42 Gallons, so: 18,648,000 to 37,296,000 gallons...
based on 37 days... ( i think that’s how long it’s been)
Is this the same team of experts that gave us global warming?
Who, o Lord, chose as the director of a soi dissant scientific agency someone with the last name of McNutt?
What has DC become, real life Saturday Night Live, or are they just Mad Magazine come to life?
LOLOL....my thoughts exactly.
The same folks that estimated the cost of obamacare.
Exxon Valdez spill was about 258,000 barrels in size - so this one is at least twice as large
It’s hard to believe anything that BP or Government says regarding their PR on this Oil Spill.
Big Oil and Government are so intertwined financially... hard to dig through the BS of disinformation and vagueness to find
the truth.
IMO
Most people are just fed up with the crisis addiction that afflicts the media. Unless you live on the coast and are effected, it doesn’t matter what the damage is. We are all waiting to hear some good news for a change, not more of the same crap.
In a body of water many magnitudes larger, there will probably be some oily beaches and slow fishing for a while, but this shall pass. It’s mostly hype people.
me too ... lets see the calculations and the data ...
It's really hard to estimate(if not impossible) what leaks from a partially crushed pipe, through an unknowable orifice, driven by unknown pressure, under huge sea pressures.
BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE IS THE ESTIMATE EVEN MADE -—
Sounds like what we do know is how much oil the tanker-skimmers could skim each day from the Gulf, if only we had any tanker-skimmers working the spill. hmmm is it possible that's the problem? Well I doubt the oil spill is going anyplace soon.
It's also kinda what we know can be done with fire booms to contain the spill, if only government had ordered any fire booms in the first place.
But even if government cannot figure out what to do about anything, at least they can put out propaganda estimates and then blame BP for under estimating. hmmm, weird reasoning ... I think you could kinda see how big the problem was from satellites. Try MODIS images for a start point.
If you want to know how the media reacted to Bush and the 1989 Exxon Valdez cleanup, well lets just say they dumped all over him continuously .... And now that the media's Obama is in charge, what will the media do??? Take a guess ... blame Bush?
Or as the law requires, we blame Obama ... the designated one in charge, by law.
But shhhh, stop asking too many questions.
How much was it pumping when it was working?
The 1979 IXTOC I is the largest accidental spill in history, to date. The well was initially flowing at a rate of 30,000 barrels per day, which was reduced to around 10,000 bpd by attempts to plug the well. The IXTOC I accident was the biggest single spill ever, with an estimated 3.5 million barrels of oil released. Some estimates put the amount of oil released at over 200 million gallons. But the official estimate was about 150 million gallons.
Bulls-Eye!
“In a body of water many magnitudes larger, there will probably be some oily beaches and slow fishing for a while, but this shall pass. It’s mostly hype people.”
mostly hype indeed. Don’t live in south louisiana do you?
“BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE IS THE ESTIMATE EVEN MADE -—”
there is a legal mechanism to fine bp based on the number of barrels spilled, so eventually the spill estimate numbers are going to be worth tens of billions of dollars. This also may relate to why bp totally lowballed their estimate from the start.
yes I know, that is why they need it as big as they can get it — They put the Obamacare low-ball estimator folks right on it.
But who will really know what leaked ... My point is it’s not knowable.
Team of scientists and government officials. What could go wrong?.
“mostly hype indeed. Don’t live in south louisiana do you?”
Do you racall the photos from the Exxon spill in Alaska? Looked pretty ugly.
The area is fine now...nature can heal...no one is saying that any of this is good....just that, as always, the eco-fear mongers will exaggerate.
The eco-fear mongers said it would take “10 years” to put of the fires in Kuwaitt that Saddam started...they said the region would take 100 years to recover....it is fine now.
The mongers said that the Alaskan pipeline would “decimate” the wild populations...the OPPOSITE happened.
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