BP COO Announces That Dispersants Are Working In Press Conference

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by Frances Martel | 4:21 pm, May 15th, 2010

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry, and BP COO Doug Suttles held a press conference earlier today to update the media on the disastrous situation in the Gulf of Mexico. While they had no good news related to the sealing of the open oil well, they did have reports that the chemical dispersants were working, and that very little damage has been done to America’s shores.

Opening the press conference, Secretary Salazar told the public, “We feel the pain. We are frustrated, and we want to make sure that at the end of the day no stone is left unturned.” Admiral Landry confirmed that, while there was oil on the shores, it was minimal, and the dispersants were keeping it from clumping up. Suttles, who spent and hour today flying over the oil spill and assessing the situation, announced that a “riser insertion tube” was being placed over the oil well in an attempt to collect the oil spewing out, to prevent it from leaking into the water. And while the weather was not currently conducive to burning the oil, they expect things to change in the near future.

The full press conference, via CNN, below:

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I find it strange that many newspapers that use AP for their stories have not printed this one.

Where’s the oil? Model suggests much may be gone
By CAIN BURDEAU (AP)
NEW ORLEANS — For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard to pin down.
Satellite images show most of an estimated 4.6 million gallons of oil has pooled in a floating, shape-shifting blob off the Louisiana coast. Some has reached shore as a thin sheen, and gooey bits have washed up as far away as Alabama. But the spill is 23 days old since the Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20 and killed 11 workers, and the thickest stuff hasn’t shown up on the coast.
So, where’s the oil? Where’s it going to end up?
Government scientists and others tracking the spill say much of the oil is lurking just below the surface. But there seems to be no consensus on whether it will arrive in black waves, mostly dissipate into the massive Gulf or gradually settle to the ocean floor, where it could seep into the ecosystem for years.
When it comes to deepwater spills, even top experts rely on some guesswork.
One of their tools, a program the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to predict how oil spills on the surface of water may behave, suggests that more than a third of the oil may already be out of the water.
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.