Gulf Oil Spill Far Larger Than Thought

Recent analysis indicates the BP Gulf Oil Spill maybe a lot worse than has been told. Two reports published last Thursday evening suggested that the amount of oil erupting into the Gulf of Mexico may be far larger than first estimated. Experts who analyzed video of oil flowing out of a pipe on the seafloor told NPR that the "BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil."


Since an April 20 drilling rig explosion set off the catastrophic spill, BP PLC has tried several ideas to plug the leak that was thought to be spewing roughly 210,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf a day. The size of the undulating spill was about 3,650 square miles, or the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, said Hans Graber, director of the University of Miami's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing.


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Gulf Oil Spill May Be Far Larger Than Current Estimates