learn more about what is continuing to flow into the gulf at the rate of tens of thousands of gallons a day. dr. overton, i appreciate your time. i don t want to take too much time away from what you are doing because it is so important for the response. when did you get your first examples? about a week ago this monday. we had a loose sample from the gulf and wellhead oil a couple three days later than that. i understand when you got that first sample you were very concerned about what was in that sample, what that said about what type of oil that was. can you show us that sample and tell us what concerned you? this is a subset, it has the consistency of roof tar. crude coming out of that production zone should be much more fluid and as is typical south louisiana crude. do you have an example of what would be south louisiana crude. this is a normal oil from the production zones in this area.
thank you. i don t want to take too much time away from what you are doing because it is so important for the response. when did you get your first examples of what was spilling into the gulf? about a week ago this monday. we had a loose sample from the gulf, and then we got some wellhead oil a couple, i understand when you got that first sample you were very concerned about what was in that sample, what that said about what type of oil that was. can you show us that sample and tell us what concerned you? this is a subset, it has the consistency of roof tar. crude coming out of that production zone should be much more fluid and as is typical south louisiana crude. do you have an example of what would be typical south louisiana crude? this is a normal oil from the production zones in this area. south louisiana crude. low sulfur, low aromatic type