Volume and extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Spill flow rate

Volume and extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Section Title: Spill flow rate
Table Section Text: None

Source	Date	Barrels per day	Gallons per day	Cubic metres per day

BP estimate of hypothetical worst-case scenario (assumes no blowout preventer)	Permit	162,000	6,800,000	25,800

United States Coast Guard	23 April (after sinking)	0	0	0

BP and United States Coast Guard	24 April	1,000	42,000	160

Official estimates	29 April	1,000 to 5,000	42,000 to 210,000	790

Official estimates	27 May	12,000 to 19,000	500,000 to 800,000	1,900 to 3,000

Official estimates	10 June	25,000 to 30,000	1,100,000 to 1,300,000	4,000 to 4,800

Flow Rate Technical Group	19 June	35,000 to 60,000	1,500,000 to 2,500,000	5,600 to 9,500

Internal BP documents hypothetical worst case (assumes no blowout preventer)	20 June	up to 100,000	up to 4,200,000	up to 16,000

Official estimates	2 August	62,000	2,604,000	9,857

Sentence(s)

In Deepwater Horizon oil spill's permit, BP estimated the worst-case flow at 162 thousand barrels per day (25,800 m³/d).

final_sentence: In Deepwater Horizon oil spill's permit, BP estimated the worst-case flow at 162 thousand barrels per day (25,800 m³/d).