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To: bentway who wrote (566525)6/6/2010 1:24:22 PM
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enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick.

10 mi x 3 mi x 300 ft = over 240 billion cubic feet.

That works out to about 1.8 trillion gallons. About 43 billion barrels.

The entire Macondo field is estimated to contain between 50 and 100 million barrels.

Lets estimate the Maconda field at 86 million barrels.

So the largest of the oil plumes is on the order of 500 times as massive as all the oil in the Maconda field. Of course, the Maconda field hasn't leaked its entire volume out over the past 47 days, only a tiny amount of it.

So when you hear about a massive oil plume - 10 miles by 3 miles by 300 feet .... know that mathematically that plume has to be mostly seawater.
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