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To: tejek who wrote (567339)5/21/2010 7:41:34 AM
From: Brumar89   of 1576018
 
There's about 660 quadrillion gallons in the Gulf of Mexico. That's sea water. Quadrillion is a one followed by 15 zeros.

Assuming 210,000 gallons per day for 30 days gets 6,300,000 gallons to date. Subtracting for evaporation and recovery there's probably about 4M gallons of oil from Maconda in the Gulf.

That comes out to 1 gallon of oil per 165,000,000,000 gallons of sea water. Trace amounts are often measured in ppm. We're at about 1 part per 165 billion so far.
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