Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site? - CSMonitor.com: Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about 100 gallons per day near the Macondo wellhead, the site of the oil spill over two years ago that became the worst environmental disaster in US history.
The US Coast Guard reports that the oil has been leaking since at least Sept. 16, when satellite images first revealed a sheen of surface oil located about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast and in the vicinity of where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 people.
Five million barrels of oil, or 205 million gallons, were released into the Gulf in the three months following the explosion...
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