BP Capturing 5,000 Barrels a Day From Gulf Oil Leak

[Robbien]

Source: Reuters

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc is capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The company couldn’t say whether that was all of the spill from the well, which has been estimated to be leaking at that rate.

“That’s 5,000 barrels a day of oil that is not going onto the sea bed,” said Mark Salt, a spokesman in Houston for BP. “We are continuing to optimize the flow.”

The oil is flowing into a drillship on the surface via a mile-long tube inserted May 16. The ship also is flaring natural gas from the well at a rate of 15 million cubic feet a day, said Salt. BP, based in London, yesterday estimated the daily flow to the drill ship at 3,000 barrels a day and 14 million cubic feet of gas.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2014884920100520

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But don't ask to see the pictures

[thereismore]

1. I guess BP is doing great for themselves. Now we'll never get them to plug it. nt

[hatrack]

2. But if the flow is 5,000 bbl/day . . . Yay! There, I fixed it!

:eyes:

[Barack_America]

3. That's nice. How many days until the well is killed?

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

4. but I thought the leak itself was only 5000 barrels a day?

So problem solved, right?

[DFW]

5. How nice

Now go suck up the other 90% of what leaking and we'll be impressed.

[happygoluckytoyou]

6. thot 5000 was what BP said was spilling----> i KNEW they were perfect....

[valerief]

7. Oh, boy. And we all get to drink the 90,000 barrels a day spewing into our environs.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/19/94467/engineer-oil-spill-videos-show.html

[CLANG]

8. If that isn't the biggest insult of all

Are they going to fess up that there is much more than 5000 barrels a day gushing out of the sea floor? Let's see the camera view again! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Bragi]

9. But for the tragedy, this would be comedy

BP has majestically put itself in the situation where it is claiming to be "capturing" the entire, total flow it still claims is coming from the blowout. Great work. have you seen pictures of the now-calmed BP hole in the ocean floor already been released? Me either. Wonder why any delay?

And a big tip of the special 'hekuva job bownie' memorial cap goes to the public transparency unit at BP. Oh wait, I forgot, BP doesn't *do* public transparency. The do lawyers and lobbyists instead.

It's also a shame that Washington doesn't have any levers in this sort of situation. I'm sure the President would be all over it, and speaking of little else, if he had any way to influence the high-risk offshore oil extraction industry.

/Visually imagine your favorite sarcasm icon here

[charlesg]

10. 5,000 barrels spill estimated - 5,000 barrels captured = 100% Success => Problem is fixed.

Congrats to BP. NOT.