They disbursed enough corexit to "sink" the administrations problems with the handling of this disaster, but it keeps popping up.

LSU confirms oil from BP well; feds collect samples

Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:59 AM



Terese Collins and On Wings of CareA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel cruises past blobs of oil bubbling up near the Deepwater Horizon wellhead on Aug. 30, 2011. Federal officials said they have collected samples but have been unable to pinpoint the source. Samples collected by the newspaper came from the BP well, according to chemical analysis by LSU scientists.


While the source of the oil bubbling up around the Deepwater Horizon site remains a mystery, a Louisiana State University scientist says further chemical analysis has confirmed that the oil originated in BP’s well, and not from other nearby sources, as federal officials have suggested.

Federal officials said Friday that they have collected samples of the oil rising to the Gulf’s surface near the wellhead in the weeks since the Press-Register went to the site and sent samples to LSU.

But the samples collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration did not contain enough oil to determine if the BP well was the source, according to officials.

Neither the government nor BP has conducted testing that could find the spot on the seafloor where the oil is emanating, according to comments from federal agencies.

The Press-Register documented oil bubbling to on the surface on Aug. 23 at the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spawning the Gulf oil spill.

Pilot says she has seen oil at site every week since Aug. 19

Bonny Schumaker — a pilot with the non-profit organization On Wings of Care — first saw oil on the surface in that area on Aug. 19. She said she has flown over the site every week since and has seen oil each time.

“We did take some samples, but there wasn’t enough in the samples to determine the source,â€