Experts Double Estimate Of BP Oil Spill Size

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 6, June 2010

 

UK PM David Cameron and President Obama will discuss the spill at the weekend.

 

Oil has been leaking into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on 20 April and sank off the coast of the US state of Louisiana, killing 11 workers.

 

BP said the device placed on the well collected 15,800 barrels of oil on Wednesday - slightly up on the 15,010 barrels collected in the previous 24-hour period.

 

New estimates for the oil spill prior to 3 June follow an assessment by a team of scientists put together by the US government and coordinated by the US Geological Survey. Read the full report here.

 

Source: BBC, U.K

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