The LeakMedia Platforms Design Team4.9 million: Barrels of oil (205.8 million gallons) leaked from the Deepwater Horizon well, about half the amount of crude oil the U.S. imports per day19: Times more oil leaked from Deepwater Horizon than spilled from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 (10.8 million gallons)62,000: Barrels leaking per day when the wellhead first broke, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Delaware each day53,000: Barrels leaking per day when the well was capped on July 15, roughly the amount of oil consumed in Rhode Island each day397.7 million: Dollars’ worth of the oil spilled at current market prices ($81.17 per barrel)665: Miles of coastline contaminated by oilThe CleanupMedia Platforms Design Team16.5 million: Gallons of oil chemically dispersed by National Incident Command32.9 million: Gallons of oil naturally dispersed, which means it has broken into droplets smaller than the diameter of a human hair51.5 million: Gallons of oil evaporated or dissolved. This differs from natural dispersion because instead of breaking down into small droplets, the oil breaks apart molecularly and dissolves into the water.6.2 million: Gallons of oil skimmed off the Gulf by the more than 830 skimming vessels used in the response35 million: Gallons directly recovered from the wellhead into ships through the riser pipe and top-hat systems11.4 million: Gallons of oil has been removed by a series of 411 controlled burns53.5 million: Gallons of oil still remaining in the water or washed ashore95.6 million: Potential gallons of gasoline leaked from the wellhead (approximately 19.5 gallons of gas can be derived from one barrel of oil). That’s about one-fourth of daily consumption in the United States. 10.4 million: Feet of sorbent boon (8.7 million) and containment boom (2.7 million) currently deployed to contain the oil1.8 million: Gallons of both surface and subsea dispersant used by Unified Incident Command28,900: Total number of personnel currently deployed in response to the spill. On July 8, 47,000 people had been deployed.57,539: Square miles of Gulf waters that remain closed to fishingIn PerspectiveMedia Platforms Design Team184,181: Times you could drive a Toyota Prius (48 mpg highway) around the Earth at the equator using the lost oil69,068: Times you could drive a Hummer H3 (18 mpg highway) around the Earth311: Olympic-size swimming pools that could be filled with the oil that leaked from Deepwater Horizon13,208: Homes that could have been heated for one year (approximately 2 gallons of heating oil are produced from one barrel, with an average American household using 742 gallons per year)(Sources: Unified Incident Command (pdf), Energy Information Association and Fueleconomy.gov)
