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Guardian: Government scientists have definitively linked a new oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico to the BP oil spill disaster of 2010.
A senior government scientist said the most likely source of the new oil is the mile-long length of pipe from the Deepwater Horizon rig, now lying in a crumpled loop on the ocean floor.
At worst, he said, the pipe was thought to contain some 1,800 barrels of oil – a minuscule amount compared with the 4.9m barrels that gushed into the ocean from BP's well during the 2010......
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Deepwater Horizon pipe ‘responsible for new oil slick in Gulf of Mexico’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 12th, 2012
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