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A university professor says satellite images show no evidence that the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico decreased after a containment cap was placed over the undersea wellhead.
University of Miami professor Hans Graber said Thursday that the spill's footprint on the Gulf's surface would have shrunk by now if the cap had significantly decreased the flow. It has not.
The Coast Guard says the containment cap is capturing 630,000 gallons a day and pumping it to a ship at the surface. That amount could nearly double by next week to roughly 1.17 million gallons.
Graber could not explain the discrepancy.
One possiblity is that the amount of oil escaping the well increased when a pipe was cut to place the containment cap.
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