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title: "Gulf Oil Spill: Coast Guard Warned Large Leak Possible, Logs Show"
date: 2010-06-07T03:04:06Z
modified: 2010-06-07T03:04:06Z
permalink: "https://nko.org/gulf-oil-spill-coast-guard-warned-large-leak-logs-show/"
type: post
status: publish
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wpid: 597
categories:
  - Environment
author: Paul Garrett Hugel
timestamp: 2010-06-07T03:04:06Z
tags:
  - Environment
---

> WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly disclosed Coast Guard documents warned that 336,000 gallons per day of oil could spew into the Gulf of Mexico if an underwater well had a complete blowout.
> 
> Coast Guard logs show the prediction came a day after a rig exploded on April 20, triggering the worst oil spill in the nation’s history from that well.
> 
> The well didn’t have such a failure. But the volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later that was revised to 210,000 gallons.
> 
> Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily.
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> The Center for Public Integrity initially reported the Coast Guard logs. It says it obtained them from a ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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