July 6 - BP's Gulf Crude Oil Nearly 40% Methane - Will Huge Dead Zone Follow?‏

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BP's Gulf Crude Oil Nearly 40% Methane - Will Huge Dead Zone Follow?

© 2010 by Linda Moulton Howe

“This is the most vigorous eruption of methane from the sea floor that's been witnessed in the modern history of humans.”

- John Kessler, Ph.D., Chemical Oceanographer, Texas A & M

T his image from video on Thursday, July 1, 2010, shows crude oil erupting
from BP's (British Petroleum) Macondo broken wellhead that contains nearly 40%
methane dissolving in the Gulf of Mexico. Video image by BP PLC.

T he BP (British Petroleum) Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010.
The huge fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit
(MODU) was about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the Louisiana coast in the Macondo
Prospect oil field. The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 17 others; another
98 people survived without serious physical injury. It caused the Deepwater Horizon to burn
and sink, and started a massive ongoing offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; this is now
considered the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Image by U. S. Coast Guard.