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10. I checked the Times article again and they'd changed 56,000 to 5,600, so I edited the OP. Re what they

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 04:03 PM

Mar 14

said in the sentence ending "by the end of this decade" - that's wrong, but it I don't know if they'd be estimating production more than 70 years in the future.

I did some googling. 10 billion barrels is the estimated total of the oil there. The company is predicting they'll get 80,000 barrels a day from 6 wells. That won't get them close to 10 billion by the end of the century. They'd need to get about 5x as much per day.

BP admits there could be a blowout doing as much damage as Deepwater Horizon.

https://earthjustice.org/feature/kaskida-bp-oil-drilling

In its proposal, BP’s math shows that a loss-of-control incident at Kaskida could spill up to 4.5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf and take 100 days to stop.

To put that in perspective, the blowout that caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster led to the release of 4.9 million barrels and took 87 days to stop. Additionally, the company did not provide the calculations behind their projection, precluding the public from independently verifying the data.

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I checked the Times article again and they'd changed 56,000 to 5,600, so I edited the OP. Re what they highplainsdem Mar 14 #10

Yeah I didn't do all the math but instantly knew the 'decade' number couldn't even be remotely close to right AZJonnie Mar 14 #11

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