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Oil spill. the new york times says scientists are finding oil plumes deep under water including one as large as ten miles long, three miles wide and 300 feet thick. the reported discovery suggests new evidence the oil spill could be worse than government and bp estimates. engineers are still trying to thread the needle and insert a siphoning tube into the ruptured pipe where the oil is gushing. they ran a snag ran into a snag when a piece of the equipment needed to be adjusted but bp says it is confident this latest plan will be successful. and the associated press has learned another rig off the louisiana coast operates with incomplete engineering documents. joining me live now via skype is oil and gas expert bob kap. bob, a good morning to you. morning, alex. i d like to talk about the latest reported discovery by the scientists, these enormous oil plumes deep under water. what does that tell you about ....
The size, the scope of the damage and what kind of damage could these plumes entail? well, i ll tell you, alex, i think the discovery of these plumes really confirms what most people in the industry thought from the very first day and that is that the flow from the well is much higher than the initial estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. many scientists i ve been read ing about or talking to have said 20,000 to 25,000 and one even came up with the number as high as 70,000 barrels a day. that makes a lot more sense to me, the 20,000, 50,000 barrels a day because these big, deep water wells are very, very productive. bob, i m trying to understand if if you have this plume, ten miles long, three miles wide, 300 feet thick, what is this some big giant glob en masse that s just sitting there or is it moving in the water? and what happens to anything that it encounters? it s going to move with the loop current in the gulf. ....