[BP] understate or overestimate what they are doing depending on the case.
Just weeks before the spill, BP promised the feds it could skim and remove almost 500,000 barrels of oily water a day. Over 78 days of this crisis, that would amount to more than 38 million barrels. But so far, BP skimming has collected only 670,000 barrels. That's 37 million barrels short.
Its not that a well rupture wasn't planned for. There was a plan, someone somewhere at least knew this was possible. The problem was that the plan was a complete wank job. Not something that can classify as "we could never have predicted this", BP's plan on file was complete garbage, Gulf based arctic marine life and dead scientists to boot.

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So what the hell happened to Kevin Costner's sucking centrifuge machines?
titanic bad, waterworld good