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from coverage of Congressional testimony yesterday: """ This would suggest BP’s number is an outlier, said subcommittee chairman Ed Markey <http://markey.house.gov/> (Dem.-Mass.). It is, Wereley assured him. Is there any chance BP got the number right, Markey asked? “I don’t see any possibility – any scenario – under which their number is accurate,” Wereley said. He could envision his own estimate dropping, if longer streams of video were made available and they showed large quantities of gas were being emitted, temporally edging out the oil. The big variable, he said is the gas-to-oil ratio emanating from the well. BP has those numbers but hasn’t shared them yet. And the oil giant also has not been sharing much video. Earlier in the day, Rep. Markey said, he put in a formal request to BP asking that it begin making live streaming video from its wellhead available to the public. That’s a good start, Wereley said. But the video he’s seen was “compressed” so that much of the fine detail in its data was missing. What proves critical for high-quality flow analyses, he emphasized, is “original unadulterated footage.” Markey pledged to look into getting it. """ http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59381/title/BP%E2%80%99s_estimate_of_spill_rate_is_way_low,_engineer_suggests ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
