[mbarker12474]

1. Deep Water Horizon spilled 3.2 billion barrels of oil into the gulf. (per the article)

2. How many billion barrels of water are in the gulf?

3. How many naturally occurring barrels of oil/petroleum are in the gulf?

[knarf]

God will not be mocked, and the insistence that we are destroying His creation in our everyday activities of the living that He blesses is ridiculous.

[Hieronymus]

1. 3.2 billion barrels translates into a bit less than 200 billion gallons.

2. The Gulf contains roughly 643 Quadrillion gallons of water http://www.gulfbase.org/facts.php

3. Which means that one is altering less than 1 ppm if my math is correct. I’d guess that one would not be altering content in an even manner.

[Oilfield]

I truly believe the article is low on the spilled crude and your number is a little high. Good friend and I did some calculations and determined that the well was flowing between 80 and 100 thousand barrels per day. Total flow was somewhere around 4.5 to 5 million barrels of crude.

Your number is considered to be a mega field. Billion versus million.

[GOPJ]

Oil in it’s ‘natural state’ has been leaking into our oceans since the dawn of time.

[PA Engineer]

Natural oil seeps have been occurring for years. The amount of oil is staggering.

Nevertheless, recent and improved data from the northern Gulf of Mexico and from offshore southern California indicate that oil seepage rates were likely underestimated in 1985 (National Research Council, 1985). Based on the above information and using the methods of Kvenvolden and Harbaugh (1983), the annual global oil seepage rate is now estimated to be between 200,000 and 2,000,000 tonnes (60 and 600 million gallons). The ‘best estimate’ of 600,000 tonnes (180 million gallons), within this range, comes from the acceptance of the original estimates of Wilson et al. (1973, 1974), resulting from a new appreciation for the magnitude of the natural seepage of crude oil, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico.

The estimate was 3.2 million barrels. Natural seeps have that beat by orders of magnitude. The disaster was a media narrative that never existed.