Sentence examples for spill estimates from inspiring English sources

(It may or may not have been surpassed by the BP spill; estimates vary).

It argued that BP's low spill estimates depended on calculations "that contradict those used by BP in making drilling decisions and during the response".

Federal and BP officials initially announced that no oil appeared to be leaking, then 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000 a day, frequently repeating that spill estimates are rough at best and that the main goal was to stop the well.

Exxon low-balled spill estimates to save BILLIONS, is BP doing the same?

Even without the BP oil spill, estimates are that Louisiana has been losing wetlands the size of a football field every 40 minutes.

This category, which represents spills with no identified cause, accounts for some 23percentt of total spills, according to Stansbury, and leaving it out skewed TransCanada's spill estimates downward.

Crews worked tonight to clean up the spill, estimated at 1 to 5 gallons.

Most of the spill, estimated at 10,000 to 12,000 tons, came from the forward half of the boat.

That may seem excessive for a relatively small spill, estimated at 1,000 barrels a day, but too much is better than too little.

Scientists, relying on data that did not include the oil spill, estimated in May that the zone would be somewhat larger this year.

BP has also argued that the government spill estimate is too high, and company lawyers this month said in a filing to United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier that an estimated 810,000 barrels of escaped oil that it collected should not be counted toward any Clean Water Act fines.