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27-Mile-Long Slick Sighted in Deep Water Gulf of Mexico

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 14:49

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Yesterday the National Response Center (NRC) received a report of a 3-mile-long slick in deepwater, at the extreme southeast
corner of the Green Canyon protraction area of the Gulf of Mexico. It’s 140 miles offshore and about 14 miles south of BP’s massive Atlantis oil platform.

We spotted a slick at that location on a MODIS/Aqua satellite image taken yesterday. But it’s a lot bigger than reported: we measure a slick 27 miles long, covering 103 km2. Assuming a thickness of 1 micron, this slick holds 27,192 gallons of oil (or some oily substance). The wind was out of the west at the time, and there are several known natural oil seep locations (shown as green dots) near the “upwind” end of the slick, so this may be an unusually large slick caused by natural seepage.

Possible oil slick (outlined) on MODIS/Aqua satellite image taken July 29, 2013. White patches are clouds. Known natural oil seep locations shown as green dots (data from Florida State University). NRC pollution report shown as small red dot at center. Oil and gas production platforms are orange dots.

Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2013/07/27-mile-long-slick-sighted-in-deep.html

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