Fresh oil slicks forming over Deepwater Horizon site

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Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil on the Gulf Raises Concerns and Haunting Memories

Fresh oil slicks forming over Deepwater Horizon spill site

"Two Louisiana State University men have returned with video evidence of large blooms of crude oil swelling up to the water’s surface where the doomed oil rig once hovered. Tests on the oil were inconclusive as far as linking it to the now-plugged oil well, but if it is from the Deepwater Horizon spill it could indicate the formation of fissures on the seabed, seeping oil into the ecosystem anew. If so, that would mean the worst accidental release of oil in human history - a spill so bad, it took five months just to stop crude from flowing - isn’t quite over."

Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil on the Gulf Raises Concerns

"Fresh oil is surfacing all over the northern quadrant of the Gulf of Mexico. Reports of slicks that meander for miles and huge expanses of oil sheen that look like phantom islands are becoming common, again. Fresh oil, only slightly weathered, is washing ashore in areas hit hardest by last year’s massive spill, like Breton Island, Ship Island, the Chandeleurs and northern Barataria Bay. BP has reactivated its Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program to handle cleanup. It’s a sickeningly familiar scene that has fishermen, researchers and public officials searching for answers, as haunting memories of last year’s calamity come roaring back."
 
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Oil slicks have been forming in the Gulf of Mexico since before the arrival of Europeans. Areas where oil seeps to the surface are quite common on land (the LaBrea tarpits are an unusually large example that comes to mind). They are even more common and noticeable in the ocean floor, since the earth's crust is thinner off the continental plates, and the oil does not get as easily coated with dust and debris, since the sea floor material is already water wet, and immiscable.

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True, but the recent oil slicks have been matched with the oil from the well. That's why the controversy has risen again and the question is being asked whether the well was truly completely sealed or if other factors (such as fracturing of the rocks around the well casing leading to seepage) are involved.
 
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