Oil Gusher

BP oil gusher « on: June 17, 2010, 08:14:42 AM »

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Hi All,
Today I thought I'd do some number crunching of these BP oil spill figures, just to get a better perspective on the whole situation.
Can someone please check my calcs, got a bit confused ere I really do hope these figures are WRONG!!!!

http://www.infowars.com/matt-simmons-believes-oil-covers-40-of-gulf-beneath-the-surface/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMybhIaejJw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLj08XzsiE&feature=related

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/matt-simmons-tells-bloomberg-only-way-contain-oil-leak-small-nuclear-bombs-top-kill-just-dis

They are now estimating 120,000 barrels a day are leaking

1 barrel oil =158.987295 litres

120,000 bpd *158.987295 litres = 19078475.4 litres

That's 19 million litres of oil a day are leaking.... This isn't a SPILL its a GUSHER
A spill is an oil tanker running a ground or breaking up, this is a open oil well gushing, big difference!!!!

http://pesn.com/2010/05/02/9501643_Mother_of_all_gushers_could_kill_Earths_oceans/
From this website:

"If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?"


1 quart=946.352946 millilitres or 0.9 of a litre
1 Imperial gallon=4.54609188 litres
19078475.4 litres per day / 4.54609188 litres=4196676.156928003 Imperial gallons that's 4.19 million gallons per day

4.54609188 litres (1 Imperial gallon) of oil / 0.946352946 litre (1 quart) = 4.803801689 quarts of oil


So, lets do the maths:
4.803801689 quarts of oil * 250,000 gallons of ocean water contaminated by 1 quart = 1,200,950.42225 gallons of ocean water that will be contaminated with 1 Imperial gallon of oil.
4196676.156928003 Imperial gallons of oil per day * 250,000 gallons of ocean water contaminated by 1 quart = 1,049,169,039,232.00075 gallons of ocean water will be contaminated EVERY single day.

That's 1 trillion(Long hand) gallons of ocean water will be contaminated EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!

As of 17 June 2010 the oil well has been gushing for 58 days!!
58 days * 1,049,169,039,232.00075 gallons of ocean water = 60,851,804,275,456.0435 gallons of contaminated ocean water so far

or

276,637,893,300,000.002652277 litres of contaminated ocean water so far

I made a mistake here... It's 1 Billion(Long hand) not trillion... Sorry!

The difference between longhand and shorthand is this:

In the US for fiscal and numeracy I believe 1 Billion is 1,000,000,000 -only shorthand billion is used

In the UK we use both
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 Billion Longhand for numeracy(Maths)
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion Shorthand for Fiscal(Banking)

In Euro they use Longhand only
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000,000 = 1 thousand million

So a trillion in longhand is a billion billion or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
in shorthand a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000

Hope this make sense?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_write_out_one_billion_in_numbers

BBS


http://science.howstuffworks.com/question157.htm
There's a whole lot of water on Earth! Something like 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of the stuff (roughly 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres) can be found on our planet. This water is in a constant cycle -- it evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land and then flows back to the ocean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wAVhf1fnzE&NR=1

Experts double estimate of BP oil spill size - 1.7 million gallons
11 June 2010, (BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10290238.stm

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily
15 june 2010, by Ray Henry (Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100616/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow

btw Lindsey Willams source say 4-5 million gallons a day

Quote from: Digler on June 17, 2010, 02:02:14 PM

I guess the entire ocean is turning into oil. how many gallons of water are in the ocean? 10 million? 20 million?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question157.htm
There's a whole lot of water on Earth! Something like 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of the stuff (roughly 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres) can be found on our planet. This water is in a constant cycle -- it evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land and then flows back to the ocean.