How LARGE was BP's Macando/Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

Well evidentially the company was covering up how big this spill actually was. Their reason for doing so could be the billions of dollars they face in fines from the federal government. You see the fine for an oil well leaking like the Deepwater well did is suppose to be $1,000 per barrel spilled.

But what is more is that if willful misconduct is found to have taken place, the fine goes up exponentially. If this in fact did occur, they face fines up to $4,300 per barrel! So to report is as some Infinitesimal amount when in fact it was much larger than that is a crime.

There is a huge discrepancy than what they publicly announced it as. As you see their internal documents said that Kurt Mix had estimated the spill to be between 8,600 to 69,500 barrels per day. This is a LONG way from the 1,000 barrels per day that was reported the next day by BP executive Doug Suttles. Furthermore, Alistair Johnston, an expert employed by BP, had generated a model showing it to be leaking 82,000 barrels a day!

How could they grossly misreport and misrepresent these numbers? And what is more who took place in this cover up besides Mix? Something was definitely perpetrated by BP and it was unlawful of them to do this!

And if anyone is interested to learn more about this, you are welcomed to read this article which spells it all out for you. It includes the names and emails/text messages that prove they GROSSLY misrepresented the facts to us all.