July 28, 2010
BP / Gulf oil spill — 68,000 square miles of direct impact
Fingers crossed: it looks like the cap on BP’s Macondo well will hold until the relief well intercepts and permanently plugs it, and no more oil from this blowout will enter the Gulf. So here’s a map showing the cumulative oil slick footprint for the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, created by overlaying all of the oil slicks and sheen mapped by SkyTruth on satellite images taken between April 25 and July 16, 2010, blogged here, and published in our gallery. Cumulatively, the surface oil slicks and sheen observed on these satellite images directly impacted 68,000 square miles of ocean – as big as the state of Oklahoma.
