Okay so is your point that you dont want to believe it because the writer used the word rig rather than wellbore?
35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day is just that.
The writer doesn’t the difference between a drilling rig
and a hole the ground, what else does he\she NOT know?
Probably thinks guns and suvs kill people too.
No I believe the well is spewing. Just a very poor attempt at communicating accurately from an agency that should know better.
After reading this article, my first thought was that there was oil stored on the rig that was leaking in addition to the failed well. Then I realized the author was confusing the two because the rig itself did not store oil and the amount of fuel stored to power its generators was nowhere near this amount. No matter how you slice it, this is very poorly written, especially by an agency that should know better.