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Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought
By: mcclatchydc.comPosted On: 05/20/2010 10:52 A
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The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday.