NEW ORLEANS, May 19 (UPI) -- Tar balls that washed ashore in the Florida Keys were not from the oil leak spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, officials said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, heavy oil from the spill in the gulf reached the Louisiana marshland as BP worked to drain off oil gushing from the well on the sea floor.
The tar balls -- ranging in size from 3 inches to 8 inches in diameter -- were found Monday and Tuesday at Zachary Taylor Park in Key West and sent to a laboratory in Connecticut for analysis.
The U.S. Coast Guard said tests "conclusively show" that a sampling of the tar balls doesn't match the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, The Miami Herald reported. Their origin, however, remains unknown.
In a paper presented at the 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and titled Estimates of Total Hydrocarbon Seepage into the Gulf of Mexico Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Images, one researcher estimated that 500,000 barrels of oil seep into the Gulf each year, twice the result of the Exxon Valdez spill. That seepage is not addressed by any government, and mitigation efforts are non-existent.
:2funny::2funny:Their origin, however, remains unknown.
Oil and tar balls wash up on beaches in California all the time. It's a natural process. The sea floor spews oil constantly.
Much more likely some ship dumped its oil off shore.. that is much more realistic.
Oil and tar balls wash up on beaches in California all the time. It's a natural process. The sea floor spews oil constantly.
And why pray tell would some random ship dump oil in the Gulf?
Oh no lads! Our tanker is over loaded! Better poor of a couple thousand gallons of oil. No one will ever know! :lol:
Used oil. Not freshly pumped crude. (I would imagine anyway)
Well... lets just hope we haven't accidently released godzilla...
I heard yesterday on the radio that a scientist analyzed the video they showed of the pipe being fitted on the leak in an effort to siphon some of the oil. He concluded by slowing the video and looking at the pixels to judge how fast the oil was coming out and how much was coming out that the leak is the equivalent to the Exxon-Valdez spill every 4-5 days.
That's unbelievable. Louisiana is starting to get hit hard, I have a feeling this is going to get much uglier before it gets any better.
Is this fact? i had a feeling it was impossible for these oil balls to conveniently show up right after a different BP oil spill.
What the? Oil doesn't evaporate, unless it is in a engine.
About 35 percent of a spill the size of the one in the Gulf, consisting of the same light Louisiana crude, released in weather conditions and water temperatures similar to those found in the Gulf now would simply evaporate, according to data that The Associated Press entered into the program.
What the? Oil doesn't evaporate, unless it is in a engine.
Sure it does. Did you ever spill gas at the pump and notice how quickly it disappears? Sweet crude does that, too.
Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects
However in water I kind of doubt it dissolves that quicklu, and I really never really noticed that xd.
Crunch that is my term for evaporates.
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