There are natural crude oil “seeps” all over the world. i.e. the planet itself is constantly spilling crude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep
The oil will just end up in the U.K. where they already have plenty of it.
I went to UCSB in the 60s before the oil spill. Santa Barbara’s beaches had tar all over them. Very hard to walk on the beach and not get tar on them—so much so that our dorm had kerosene in the shower rooms to get it off.
Yep. The gulf has hundreds if not thousands of natural weeping holes. It is part of the natural ecosystem.