Where did the oil go?
That's the question being asked in the Gulf of Mexico these days. It appears the oil has dissipated much faster than expected.
As The New York Times says today, reporters flying over the Gulf are spotting "only a few patches of sheen and an occasional streak of thicker oil" while others are seeing only a few tar balls and emulsified oil "here and there."
Is the oil hiding? Or as Peter at OPNTALK facetiously asks, has it been stolen, or is it simply "lounging" below the surface? No.
It's likely that much of the Macondo's sweet crude evaporated on the water's surface, was weathered and broken down by Gulf storms, or was consumed by the oil-eating bacteria that have been living on oil from naturally-occurring seeps since the beginning of time.
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