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"It is telling that the Department of Justice's charges against Kurt Mix surround efforts to cover up the fact that BP's public estimates of the oil flow rate were far lower than the actual flow rate, " the group said in a statement on the arrest.
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Mix and other engineers had worked tirelessly to calculate the flow rate of oil from the Macondo Well in order to develop a means of stopping the spill.
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It also complained about the steady flow of cut-rate oil to Cuba, which Capriles said would end if he won.
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Oil should at last start to flow at a rate of more than 2.5m barrels a day, the figure two years before the American invasion of 2003, but not by much more than that.
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Days later, we learned that not only was oil still leaking, but that the rate of flow was more like 5, 000 barrels per day.
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But this is -- simply observing where the oil is coming out is insufficient to really calculate any flow rate with any degree of accuracy.
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It quickly became obvious, however, that there was more oil accumulating at the surface than would be possible at that flow rate.
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"Before Top Kill commenced, Mix and other engineers had concluded internally that Top Kill was unlikely to succeed if the flow rate was greater than 15, 000 barrels of oil per day, " the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the charges.
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We ought to be ruthless in our oversight of BP, and trying to understand what oil is not being contained that's leaking out around that rubber seal, once we know what that flow rate is.
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