Government’s Report on BP Oil Spill Challenged by Scientists and Gulf Residents
On August 4, 2010, the White House released a controversial report titled “BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Budget: What Happened To the Oil?” In answer to the question “what happened to the oil,” government scientists suggest:
- 26% is “residual” oil which is “either on or just below the surface as light sheen and weathered tar balls, has washed ashore or been collected from the shore, or is buried in sand and sediments;”
- 25% has evaporated or dissolved;
- 17% was directly recovered from the wellhead;
- 16% was naturally dispersed;
- 8% was chemically dispersed;
- 5% was burned;
- 3% was skimmed.
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