BP says it is currently retrieving 5000 barrels a day into a tanker

[Winterblues]

An average tanker holds 2 million barrels of oil. It will take over a year to fill one tanker at this rate. Tankers are some damn big boats.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I don't believe them anyway

do you?

[joeybee12]

2. Not one bit...n/t

[G_j]

3. BP nows says 2,200 barrels a day

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258371387135554.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines


By ISABEL ORDONEZ
HOUSTON—BP PLC said Friday that the amount of oil being collected from a massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico had declined since Tuesday to 2,200 barrels a day.

The company is to provide details later Friday on why the rate declined from the 5,000 barrels a day the company said were being collected Thursday.

BP spokesman John Curry said 15 million cubic feet a day of natural gas are also being siphoned through a mile-long tube the company inserted over the weekend into a shattered oil pipe on the Gulf's floor.

Pressure grew on BP after the company said Thursday it was collecting as much crude as was officially estimated to be gushing out of a deepwater well, signaling that the spill is therefore larger than previously thought.

The growing spill followed the explosion and sinking last month of Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which was drilling for London-based BP about 40 miles from the Louisiana coast. Eleven people were killed.