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Worse than Exxon Valdez by a factor of 1.6x to 3.3x. Hope this works.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (May 27) -- BP reported today that its "top kill" attempt to block the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is proceeding as planned, though it could take more than a day before engineers can say whether it succeeded. Scientists said the gulf crude spill is the nation's worst, far larger in volume than the Exxon Valdez accident.
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said the top kill procedure pushed some heavy drilling mud down into the well bore, as engineers try to overcome the upward pressure from oil and gas in the well. He said the company stopped pumping the mud late Wednesday night and performed pressure measurements. It resumed pumping this evening.
Scientists said they have determined that the spill is worse than previously estimated, with far more crude in the gulf than leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident. Two groups of scientists used different methods and found that between 19 million and 39 million gallons of crude have leaked into the gulf so far, U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt said at a news conference today. Eleven million gallons of crude spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster, which until now was the nation's worst oil spill. The world's worst spill happened at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, after Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait sabotaged the country's oil reserves on land and at sea. Between 240 million and 520 million gallons spilled into the Persian Gulf, according to estimates.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/articl...spill/19491691
BATON ROUGE, La. (May 27) -- BP reported today that its "top kill" attempt to block the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is proceeding as planned, though it could take more than a day before engineers can say whether it succeeded. Scientists said the gulf crude spill is the nation's worst, far larger in volume than the Exxon Valdez accident.
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said the top kill procedure pushed some heavy drilling mud down into the well bore, as engineers try to overcome the upward pressure from oil and gas in the well. He said the company stopped pumping the mud late Wednesday night and performed pressure measurements. It resumed pumping this evening.
Scientists said they have determined that the spill is worse than previously estimated, with far more crude in the gulf than leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident. Two groups of scientists used different methods and found that between 19 million and 39 million gallons of crude have leaked into the gulf so far, U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt said at a news conference today. Eleven million gallons of crude spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster, which until now was the nation's worst oil spill. The world's worst spill happened at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, after Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait sabotaged the country's oil reserves on land and at sea. Between 240 million and 520 million gallons spilled into the Persian Gulf, according to estimates.
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