319 million barrels of oil leaking Gulf of Mexico

319 million barrels of oil leaking Gulf of Mexico

February 6, 2015 Kasy 0

After a lengthy trial after a federal judge ruled in 2010 after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling equipment, oil giant BP’s total to 319 million barrels of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. This figure is lower than the US government prosecutors estimated 420 million barrels, but higher than the previous estimate of 245 million barrels of BP.