Of course, there are already multiple deep - water wells
in the Gulf of Mexico alone, including ones such as Shell's Perdido at roughly 2,450 meters beneath the waves that are nearly
twice as deep as the BP
blowout.
The analysis found that at its peak, the
blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane
in the United States,
twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.