Sentence examples for estimate of the flow from inspiring English sources

At the time, Mr. Dudley said the "best estimate" of the flow rate was 5,000 barrels a day.

It continues a pattern in which every new estimate of the flow rate has been dramatically higher than the one before.

The official government estimate of the flow rate is 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day, which means the new device should be capturing the bulk of the oil.

And on Thursday, a team of scientists appointed by the Obama administration offered a more credible estimate of the flow rate at the broken well, putting it at two to four times the previous calculation.

This cap, says the company, is now collecting more than 10,000 barrels of oil a day, ferrying it up to a tanker on the surface.That sounds like good news, because the current official estimate of the flow rate, from the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group, is between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels a day.

First, visualization images have been acquired to have an initial estimate of the flow structure.

On Monday, a senior BP official told members of Congress that the well could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels of oil a day, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow.

Interestingly, the dynamics could no longer be fitted by a single exponential, as it contained two characteristic recovery times: a fast one, very similar to the control, and a much slower one of 7.8 ± 0.6 min. A rough estimate of the flow-induced duration to close a bleached segment of 3 µm, assuming a mean velocity of 30 nm/s, is 100 s, which cannot be distinguished from the turnover time.

The success of the containment device has cast new doubts on the official estimates of the flow rate, developed by a government-appointed team called the Flow Rate Technical Group.

According to the affidavit, BP's internal estimates of the flow exceeded 15,000 barrels a day, far higher than the rate the company acknowledged at the time.

But based on new estimates of the flow rate released Tuesday, that may be only about one-quarter of the amount leaking daily.