油可能要流多4年：英國石油公司總裁托尼海沃德承認

油可能要流多4年：英國石油公司總裁托尼海沃德承認
Oil could flow for four more years, admits BP CEO Tony Hayward
By Jane Burgermeister
June 18, 2010 at 3:43 pm
BP CEO Tony Hayward told a House hearing on “The Role Of BP In The Deepwater Horizon Explosion And Oil Spill”, on Thursday that oil from the leak could flow for up to four more years.
英國石油公司總裁托尼海沃德告訴一在週四的眾議院聽證會，題為“英國石油公司的角色在深水爆炸與溢油”，洩漏的石油可能要流長達多 4年。
“The oil reservoir that feeds the well and leak still holds about 2 billion gallons of oil, according to the first public estimate Hayward has given of the size of the undersea oil field,” reports CBS news.
“那餵飼井和洩漏的石油水塘，仍有約 20億加侖的石油，根據首次公開估計，海沃德已交出海底油田的面積，”哥倫比亞廣播公司的新聞報導。
“That means the reservoir is believed to still hold 94 percent to 97 percent of its oil. At the current flow rate, it would take from two years to nearly four years for all the oil to be drained from it.”
“那意味著該水塘據信仍有它的石油的94%至97%，按照目前的流量，它需要兩年至近4年，讓所有的石油從它流走。“
http://wjz.com/national/gulf.oil.spill.2.1756686.html

According to the US government, 60,000 barrels a day are already flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the leak caused by an explosion on the “Deep Horizon” oil rig on April 20th, leased by BP. But scientists such as Steven Wereley from Purdue University estimate as much as 84,000 barrels could be flowing out.

The oil has already reached the Gulf Stream and the powerful ocean currents that can transport it as far as Canada, the Artic, Europe and eventually around the whole world, causing a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions as fish and sea animals die, and the process of evaporation of sea water to form rain is affected.

In addition, tsunamis of 20 to 80 feet could inundate the Gulf of Mexico coast when enough oil has flowed out of the reservoir to normalize the pressure. At that point, it is believed, sea water will be sucked in to the cavity by the ocean pressure. The water will evaporate to steam at the temperatures of 400 degrees centigrade, which are found in the deep sea rock. The steam will expand in volume and could generate enough pressure to blow the Gulf of Mexico sea bed apart, tiggering gigantic tsumani waves that could reach up to 200 miles inland.

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