There were tar balls in the Gulf before drilling for oil even existed!
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Any tar balls or oil from natural seeps takes this same direction.
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As tar balls floated ashore onto the Panhandle's white sands during the weekend, some anglers blamed their bad fishing luck on the oil.
While some beaches contain remnants of the spill (Louisiana's Elmer Island still has tar balls), any oil that does wash ashore is quickly removed by BP crews.
Galveston's mayor, Joe Jaworski, said he was hopeful the analysis was correct and that the tar balls were not a sign of more oil to come.
Tar balls and oily water were spotted on Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake to the north of New Orleans, in Louisiana.
The public prosecutor of the city of Brest said on Monday that tar balls found on beaches in the south of the Finistere department were probably from the wreck.
The commander of the US Coast Guard in the Galveston region, Capt Marcus Woodring, said about five gallons (19 litres) of tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon leak had been found on Saturday.
Tar balls have been coming ashore.
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And so the oil that we anticipate coming ashore, for example, is more likely to be in the form of mats or strings or tar-balls.
Balls of tar washing up on the beach would make any real estate deal tougher.
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