Sentence examples for oil escaping from inspiring English sources

These delayed the onset of oil escaping but did not entirely cure this annoying problem.

Moreover, if kinks in the riser are now reducing the amount of oil escaping, cutting the riser could unleash a greater flow.

The volume of oil escaping the damaged well originally estimated by the U.S. Coast Guard at about 1,000 bbl per day was thought by U.S. scientists and engineers to have peaked at more than 60,000 bbl per day.

The volume of oil escaping the damaged well originally estimated by BP to be about 1,000 barrels per day was thought by U.S. government officials to have peaked at more than 60,000 barrels per day.

Estimates on Oil Flow Are Raised Again A government panel on Tuesday again raised its estimate of the oil escaping from BP's out-of-control well, to as much as 60,000 barrels a day.

Engineers had feared that the volume and velocity of oil escaping might create so much friction on the new pipe that it might force it entirely off the cap.

An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil escaped from BP's blown-out well.

And, should oil escape, the company insists, it will have booms, skimmers and helicopters at the ready.

Both sides agreed that 810,000 barrels, or 34m gallons (129m liters), of oil escaped the well but were captured before it could pollute the Gulf.

The second act, in which more than a million barrels of oil escaped from the ruined well unimpeded, ended with the failed attempt to "top kill" the well by filling it with mud pumped down from the surface.

The second phase could begin this summer, and will deal with what happened after the spill began, assessing the efforts to seal the well and trying to determine how much oil escaped from the well before it was finally capped in July 2010.