BP Thought Spill Could Be 100-Times Larger Than It Told Congress

Newly released internal documents show BP PLC estimated 4.2 million gallons of oil a day could gush from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico if all equipment restricting the flow was removed and company models were wrong.

Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey released the documents Sunday showing BP said in a worst-case scenario the leak could gush between 2.3 million and 4.2 million gallons of oil per day.

The current worst-case estimate of what's leaking is 2.5 million gallons a day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/20/bp-thought-spill-could-be_n_618879.html

 

Terrible decision by BP to lie to Congress on this. I am glad their Chairman axed the CEO. Haywood looked like an absolute moron up there. Look for a much more active and involved Chairman of the Board - there is no doubt he will now be calling all the shots PR wise and this new guy Dudley, will be his mouthpiece.

 

He did!

He looked even worse as he took time off from the spill to watch yacht racing.

 

He just didn't have good PR people. They could have spun it that he was investigating the possibilities for using racing yachts for fast deployment of booms in the gulf.

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