Sentences with phrase «underwater oil plumes»

If BP's claims that there's no underwater oil plumes doesn't turn out to be true, it could make the Obama administration even angrier.

Tuesday, June 1st Contradicting the findings of many scientists, BP denies the existence of underwater oil plumes.

It also adds weight to reports of massive underwater oil plumes that government officials are now downplaying.

Not exact matches

And starting in August and continuing into September, Samantha Joye, a biogeochemist at the University of Georgia in Athens, and a group of scientists are tracking underwater plumes, retracing the steps of earlier studies to determine how the oil has been travelling in the water column.

Thanks to favourable winds and currents, aggressive oil skimming and trapping at the surface, and the likelihood that a substantial portion of oil is still drifting in underwater plumes, it seems that the damage so far may be limited.

«The Gulf of Mexico is home to one of the largest concentrations of underwater hydrocarbon seeps, and it has been speculated that this helped in the selection of oil - degrading microbes that were observed in the underwater plumes,» he said.

After the dispersant is applied, the tiny droplets of oil follow the water currents in underwater plumes.

As oil and gas gushed out of the ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, she reasoned, many of the hydrocarbons would spread underwater in deep plumes rather than all rise to the surface, as many expected.

Later in the video, a voice on speakerphone with a heavy Southern accent reveals that government scientists were concerned from the very beginning about underwater plumes of oil — a reality that NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco and BP executives are still seeking to downplay.