BP oil spill also a deep-sea gas leak

Huge amounts of gases like methane and pentane spewed forth from the BP”s Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout along with the approximately 206 million gallons of crude oil.

Publishing yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience, University of Georgia oceanographers estimated that 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons escaped during the spill…. Read Full Article by Tim Wall