June 26, 2010 - The oil numbers

[LeftyFingerPop]

Deep Water high estimate. 170 million gallons to date, 67 days, average 2,500,000 gallons per day or 60,000 barrels per day.

Deep Water low estimate. 100 million gallons to date, 67 days, average 1,500,000 gallons per day or 36,000 barrels per day.

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/

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IXTOC (1979)

Somewhere around 140 million gallons over about 300 days = 3,300,000 barrels or apx. 11,000 barrels per day on average.

[BeFree]

1. Ixtoc

We're number 1..!!
We've finally screwed up worse than Mexico.

Our cup runneth over.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. I think there was at least one bigger than IXTOC...

the intentional oil release in the Persian Gulf during the war in 1991.

[BeFree]

6. Give us time, we'll kick that record, too.

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. No doubt. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. What is the next level of horror after "TRAGEDY"?

[Overseas]

3. K&R! //nt

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. lol...some idiot unrecs numbers. n/t

[Yuugal]

8. We aren't capturing 90% yet?

"In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90% of the oil leaking out of the well. This is until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely."