Dirty blizzard buried Deepwater Horizon oil

January 28, 2013

One-third of oil from 2010 spill may be mixed with sea-floor sediments.

Missing oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have ended up at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 spewed more than 600 million litres of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. While microbes processed the vast majority within months, US government assessments failed to account for the fate of about one-quarter of the spilled oil.

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