One barrel of oil = 42 US gallons
100,000 x 42 = 4,200,000 gallons per day flowing from the blowout “preventer”.
4,200,000 x 63 days = 264,600,000 (two hundred sixty four million, six hundred thousand) gallons of oil. And counting.
Possible plug date: August 2010. Maybe. If they’re lucky.
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The largest oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was in the Bay of Campeche in June of 1979. It took until March of 1980 to completely cap the well, (10 months), so don’t get in a hurry. BTW Pemex paid 100 million dollars in cleanup costs. However, since Pemex is owned by the Republic of Mexico, it claimed soverign immunity and paid no claims.
The largest oil blowout of all time was near Maricopa in Kern County, CA in 1910. And these guys were looking for natural gas. Source: Wikipedia
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