Scientists: Oil fouling Gulf matches Deepwater Horizon well

[Locutus]

MOBILE, Alabama -- Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.


The pair did much of the chemical work used by federal officials to fingerprint the BP oil, known as MC252.
“After examining the data, I think it’s a dead ringer for the MC252 oil, as good a match as I’ve seen,” Overton wrote in an email to the newspaper. “My guess is that it is probably coming from the broken riser pipe or sunken platform. ... However, it should be confirmed, just to make sure there is no leak from the plugged well.”





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Scientists: Oil fouling Gulf matches Deepwater Horizon well (photo gallery, video) | al.com

 

[Tonington]

Soiled pants at BP headquarters.

 

[Mowich]

MOBILE, Alabama -- Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.


The pair did much of the chemical work used by federal officials to fingerprint the BP oil, known as MC252.
“After examining the data, I think it’s a dead ringer for the MC252 oil, as good a match as I’ve seen,” Overton wrote in an email to the newspaper. “My guess is that it is probably coming from the broken riser pipe or sunken platform. ... However, it should be confirmed, just to make sure there is no leak from the plugged well.”


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Scientists: Oil fouling Gulf matches Deepwater Horizon well (photo gallery, video) | al.com

This should come as no surprise considering BPs egregious record on everything from safety to the replacement of equipment in a timely manner. Their flagrant dismissal of complaints by officials and employees alike concerning the need for new equipment to replace the crumbling and dangerous present infrastructure led directly to the deaths of numerous workers and should alone have been indictable.

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[Nuggler]

:wav:

HEY!! Dat BP, der, dey clean up de spill, jus lak dey says dey do. Dey giv us da money and all, hien.......She's hokay now. Fish be good, shrimp be reeeeely good, bon and all dat. time to eat. COME ON DOWN!! (cue fiddles) (Fade to black)

 

[petros]

It's okay...BP's back-up (Talisman) will do the dirty work for the next while as BP cleans up it's main name brand image.