Getting your player ready...
NEW ORLEANS — Scientists on Tuesday provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well that indicates it could be leaking 1.47 million to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.
The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scientists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe near the sea floor. The pipe was removed so BP could install a containment cap that is trapping leaking oil and drawing it to a ship waiting on the ocean surface.
From Post wire services
