{"id":571810,"date":"2010-05-20T06:56:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=43454"},"modified":"2010-05-20T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:56:36","slug":"professor-of-mechanical-engineering-estimates-that-4-million-gallons-of-oil-are-leaking-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571810","title":{"rendered":"Professor of Mechanical Engineering Estimates that 4 Million Gallons of Oil are Leaking Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prison Planet<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s Blog<\/a>
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As I wrote<\/a> on May 2nd:<\/p>\n

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The Gulf oil spill is much worse than originally believed.<\/p>\n

As the Christian Science Monitor writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard\u2019s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day.<\/p>\n

Independent scientists estimate that the renegade wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf could be spewing up to 25,000 barrels a day. If chokeholds on the riser pipe break down further, up to 50,000 barrels a day could be released, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration memo obtained by the Mobile, Ala., Press-Register.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CNN quotes the lead government official responding to the spill \u2013 the commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen \u2013 as stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If we lost a total well head, it could be 100,000 barrels or more a day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, an environmental document filed by the company running the oil drilling rig \u2013 BP \u2013 estimates<\/a> the maximum as 162,000 barrels a day:<\/p>\n

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In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day<\/em><\/strong> from an uncontrolled blowout \u2014 6.8 million gallons each day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Today, a Purdue University mechanical engineering professor \u2013 Steven Wereley \u2013 testified<\/a> to the House Committee on Commerce and Energy that 95,000 barrels a day are currently leaking into the Gulf. That\u2019s 3,990,000 gallons<\/a> \u2013 just shy of 4 million gallons \u2013 per day.<\/p>\n

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