Where's All The Oil?

[VictorB]

AFP: Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official

WASHINGTON — Some 750 boats drafted in to scoop up oil from the Gulf of Mexico are having "trouble" finding any crude in the sea, a top US official said Wednesday, almost a week after a busted well was capped.

"We are starting to have trouble finding oil," US pointman Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of handling the government's response, told reporters.

The boats, which have been drafted in to skim oil off the surface of the Gulf, are "really having to search for the oil in some cases" around the area of the capped well, he added.

According to official US government figures, more than 270,000 barrels of oil (11.3 million gallons) have been burned in controlled operations since the start of the spill in April.

That is more than all the crude that spilled into the seas off Alaska in the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.

The US government also said that some 34.6 million gallons of oil water had been recovered from the Gulf since the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank in April.

BP finally managed to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf on Thursday, when a new 30-foot (10-meter) giant cap was put in place.

The government has allowed BP to keep the cap shut since then, extending permission in 24-hour stints.

Allen said some of the boats used in the skimming operations were being brought ashore for repairs, as attention turned more towards cleaning up the oil that has already washed ashore along five Gulf coasts.

 

[MineGoesTo11]

Sub surface.

 

[PraXis]

Devoured by the Kraken!

/just saw Clash of the Titans last night

 

[redcoats1976]

willprobably be found after the tropical storm passes all over louisiana...

 

[0x00]

 

[Mattyboy]

reabsorbed into the earth's crust

 

[Sin Nombre]

With all the vinegar?

 

[Sin Nombre]

Here's some of it...

 

[Micky]

Saudi Arabia?

 

[MineGoesTo11]

Here's some of it...

I just puked in my mouth a little.

 

[MineGoesTo11]

He shouldn't be too smug.. you still need oil for the tires, the pavement, the plastics.. etc. etc.

 

[FrankieOliver]

I just puked in my mouth a little.

Yes, that was totally uncalled for.

 

[Sin Nombre]

Sorry.

He shouldn't be too smug.. you still need oil for the tires, the pavement, the plastics.. etc. etc.

You're right, but you gotta start somewhere.

 

[geochem1st]

Found it... wasn't that hard.

 

[Drew224]

imo, thad allen sucks.

 

[Rock Johnson]

From CNBC:

If the Gulf of Mexico was the size of the new Dallas Stadium, 184 million gallons of oil would be equivalent to a 24oz can of beer.

"If the Gulf of Mexico - the 7th largest body of water in the world, containing approximately 660 quadrillion gallons of water (that's 660 with 15 zeros) - was represented by Cowboys Stadium in Dallas - the largest domed stadium in the world - how would the spill stack up?

In this example, the amount of oil spilled - if the Gulf of Mexico was the size of Cowboys Stadium - would be about the size of a 24 ounce can of beer.

Cowboys stadium has an internal volume of approximately 104 million cubic feet, compared to the just over 50 cubic inches of volume in a 24-ounce can.

Just like the can, the spilled oil represents only .00000002788% of the liquid volume present in the Gulf of Mexico, although as the oil is dispersed, the amount of water affected becomes substantially greater."

 

[geochem1st]

^^^^^^^^^


Q: How much oil would it take to contaminate 1 million gallons of fresh water (one year's supply for 50 people)?



A: One gallon

 

[vintageJIM]

first off the MSM attempted to hide & then distort the scope of the oil spill & now that the gusher has been capped for <week, they are trying to play down the impact of the remaining oil

what a bunch of cock sucking a**holes ...........................

 

[Mike's_LP]

That is an APPALLING amount of toxic, black smoke in our atmospere!!!

As for the rest, I have no words.

 

[Rock Johnson]

Right... one part per million.

Currently, the Gulf is nowhere near that level.

184,000,000 gallons have been spilled. (184 million)
660,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water are in the GoM.

So, considering the GoM as a whole, the concentration is at 1.84 parts per 6,600,000,000 (6.6 TRILLION.)

Just sayin'.