Federal Science Report Details Fate of Oil From BP Spill

August 4, 2010

The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this is the direct result of the robust federal response efforts.

[noaa story]

why is everybody so happy that only 25% of the oil is left? that's well over a million barrels:

“When they say that there’s 25 percent of the oil remaining, that is almost five times the Exxon Valdez,” which spilled crude into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989, said Ian MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

[bloomberg story]