Same old song and dance
No big surprise here. Another slick emanating from Site 23051 in the Gulf. And another case of underreporting. It does seem to be the same old story, same old song and dance. The June 28 NRC report for this chronic leak, presumably filed by the responsible party – Taylor Energy – lists a spill volume of 16.59 gallons, and describes a slick 800 feet wide by 3.9 miles long. However, these MODIS satellite images tell a different story. In the top MODIS image from 6/28 you can see the slick pretty clearly:
| MODIS Terra True Color image from 6/28 |
| MODIS Terra True Color image from 6/28 with measurement of slick |
And in this second image, you can see the length of the slick is a little more than the reported size of 3.9 miles. Using Google Earth’s measuring tool, this slick is closer to 22 miles long. According to the SkyTruth Alert for this report, using the calculations we use at SkyTruth to determine the size of a spill, and assuming a minimum average thickness of
1/1000th of a millimeter (1 micron) on the surface, we came up with a spill size of 404 gallons. And that’s using their description of the slick size, even though we can clearly see on this image that the slick is much bigger than they reported. In fact, measuring the slick on the MODIS satellite image, we come up with an area of about 39 square kilometers. At a thickness of 1 micron, that amounts to 10,296 gallons of oil. A bit more than 16 gallons.
As you can see from the Site 23051 Chronology page we’ve been keeping, this is pretty standard practice for this location. And our Gulf Monitoring Consortium report shows this underreporting may be widespread.
We wish the companies reporting their spills would give us some details on how they come up with their numbers, so we could figure out why there is such a discrepancy between what they’re reporting and what we’re observing. Maybe there’s a good explanation for this.
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