abstract:The Flow Rate Technical Group is a group of scientists and engineers from the United States federal government, universities, and research institutions created May 19, 2010, for an official scientific-based estimate of the flow of oil in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It issued an interim report on May 27.
Thatsoundslikegood news, becausethe currentofficial estimateof the flowrate, from theNationalIncidentCommand's flow rate TechnicalGroup, is between 12,000 and 19,000 barrelsa day.
Understanding that, again, the FlowRateTechnicalGroup was stood up -- and as Admiral Allen has said countless number of times, our response was not dictated upon a flow mechanism.
So the FlowRateTechnicalGroup is going back and looking at the information that we have now, the information post the shear cut, and whether or not, as the Admiral said, we can get a closer range as to what has happened.