What does 130 million gallons of oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill look like?

The latest satellite images from the International Space Station (ISS) help us answer the question.



BP admitted yesterday that much more oil was coming from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig then it previously estimated.

Independent scientists say that about 100,000 barrels of oil per day are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.

Those number look more accurate than ever after BP acknowledges that it was now capturing 5,000 barrels per day using its siphon device and it hasn’t even put a dent into the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.

Over the 31 days since the oil began leaking 3.1 million barrels of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, given an oil spill rate of 100,000 barrels barrels per day.

At 42 gallons per barrel, that puts the total amount of oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at over 130,000,000 gallons of oil.



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