Unfortunately none of them could say with any certainty just how much oil is in the reserve in question because, for one thing, the oil industry and secrecy have always been synonymous.
According to BP data from about five years ago, there are four separate reservoirs containing a total of 2.5 billion barrels (barrels not gallons). One of the reservoirs has 1.5 billion barrels. I saw an earlier post here quoting an Anadarko Petroleum report which set the total amount at 2.3 billion barrels.
The only way I can see to cap this well is to drill 4 wells
around the blowout well,,,maybe 6 or 8,,,or ?,,,
What ever it takes,,,
They can lay another undersea pipeline to Port Fourchon,,,
Nobody wants to do this because it would kill the price of
oil on the world market for a time,,,
BP is burning the oil at sea and that should prove my point.
Only about 50 miles from Port Fourchon where the oil/gas
can be piped to every refinery in the area...
I don’t suppose they explain how it is possible that the total reserves can bleed out throi8hg one leaking area. Theya re essentially suggesting that every barrel of oil that exists in the Gulf of Mexico will bleed out. How is that possible ? There needs to be enough pressure from natural gas to continue forcing the oil out. Even now there are many underwater oil wells in operation for decades and have nto come close to extracting all the possible oil. It seems absurd that there would be enough pressure to drain out even the Macondo field the well is on, and esp off the wall that all the GoM reserves could drain out.