BP Outlines Plan To Capture As Much As 80,000 Barrels A Day
Faced with unrelenting pressure to show that it can fix the Deepwater Horizon rig wreck oil leak, BP plc (NYSE: BP) has written Rear Admiral James Watson of the Coast Guard outlining aggressive plans to increase the amount of crude…
By mid-June, BP plans to bring in new equipment from as far away as Brazil to capture 20,000 to 28,000 barrels a day. The next set of improvements to the capture mechanism will increase capacity to 40,000 to 53,000 barrels a day by late June. Adding two new risers by mid-July will increase capture capacity to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day.
At this point, the oil leak rate is estimated to be as high as 40,000 barrels a day. That means if everything goes right no crude will be leaking into the environment within a month. That’s — of course — barring any new leaks, a breakdown in equipment, or a hurricane.
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