Scientists watching where oil spill headed next.gulf of mexico oil spill
Scientists are anxiously awaiting signals about where a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico may be heading next. And federal officials acknowledge the government could have been more aggressive in overseeing the drilling, while efforts to contain the spill are proving increasingly difficult.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is set to address the spill at a hearing Wednesday.
Fears are growing that the gushing well could spread damage from Louisiana to Florida. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a Senate panel Tuesday that his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore activities and that may have contributed to the disastrous spill.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010 – Obama Administration Employee Resigns. The person in charge of overseeing offshore drilling within the Obama Administration has announced his upcoming resignation due to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil Spill. Chris Oynes, who worked for the Department of Interior, has will soon be resigning.
Chris Oynes came under heavy criticism following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. His job involved overseeing the oil and natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. However, since the oil spill occurred, reports have began to surface that indicate that the government oversight into the offshore oil rigs was rather lax.
President Obama expressed his frustration with the situation last Friday, as he ordered Ken Salazar (Secretary of the Interior,) to conduct a complete reform of the offshore drilling procedures.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010 – BP Reports Success In Capturing Oil By Inserting Oil Leak Tube
BP Oil Spill 2010: The attempts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill met with some success thanks to an experimental option of inserting an oil leak tube by BP.
According to reports, the engineers were successful in inserting a tube into the broken pipe and captured the oil and gas, which in turn resulted in a breath of success. The BP officials said that this process has not completely curbed the problem, but this opens a way on how to actually get the work of stopping the oil leak done.
The tube system is just one of many ways proposed by the BP engineers to stop the mayhem of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is destroying marine wildlife. The oil and gas collected were sent up the drill ship, Discovery Enterprise, which has a process of getting rid of the gas by burning it out by a flare system. The amount of oil now which is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico is around 210000 gallons per day.
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a big deal. Â Each and every day that the leak is not stopped, it is getting worse and worse. Â The Gulf of Mexico oil spill challenges wildlife, and has threatened the summer tourist industry in areas that depend on it so desperately.
The BP oil spill started after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion. Every day, 200,000 gallons – or potentially more – gallons of crude oil spill into the ocean.  There have been several attempts at capping and diverting the flow of crude, but they have yet to be successful.
Relief wells are being drilled – but the process takes up to three months to complete. All that is currently happening is that the spill and slick is getting bigger and bigger.
The size of the oil slick is rapidly increasing, as can be seen by pilots flying over the area and also trajectories created by experts. Here are some pictures of the oil spill as well as an indication of how big the oil spill is expected to be on May 14 and May 15.
