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Millions of liters oil were spilled in the Gulf of Mexico's explosion, 70 km Beach Closed Until.



New Orleans - The explosion at an offshore oil drilling Deepwater Horizon Tuesday night local time (20/4) fatal impact.

Thursday night local time (24 quarters), Deepwater Horizon drowned. Now, as many as 2.6 million liters of diesel fuel stored in it the potential to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, 11 workers are still reported missing.

"Handling of accidents Deepwater Horizon federal government's main priority," stressed the President of the United States (USA) Barack Obama in a written statement quoted by the White House yesterday (23 / 4). He also promised to exert all efforts to overcome the tragedy that has led to global environmental pollution. Moreover, before the blast occurred, the location of Transocean's offshore drilling is stored at least 2.6 million liters of diesel fuel. Typically, the Deepwater Horizon produces about 8,000 barrels of crude per day. "The volume of oil that spilled into the high seas, including a large category," said Mike O'Berry, a senior U.S. Coast Guard. But the U.S. maritime admitted the difficulty of calculating the volume of crude oil spilled into the ocean. What is clear, the Gulf of Mexico who became a shelter of offshore drilling was contaminated. Yesterday, beach clean-up effort from an oil spill starting performed. "Cover the surface of oil spills along the coast 70 kilometers," O'Berry light. The U.S. military helped the Coast Guard units struggled to prevent an oil spill reached the mainland of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
British giant oil company, British Petroleum (BP), also exert a number of vessels to detect oil spills. Simultaneously, they also continue to search for Deepwater Horizon 11 workers whose fate is unclear.

Some government officials say that an oil spill that flooded the former location of the Deepwater Horizon is the largest environmental disaster in the U.S.. More precisely, pascatragedi from tanker oil spills in the 1989 Exxon Valdez ago. At that time, not less than 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William inundate coastal Alaska. Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Mary Landry strongly denied reports that mention the existence of oil spills at sea level. "There is no oil flowing into the sea from drilling wells. There are no leaks, "he said told The Associated Press. Nevertheless, he mobilized a number of crews to monitor the current situation in the drilling site


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