HOUSTON (Reuters) –
U.S. experts investigating reports of undersea oil plumes emanating from BP Plc‘s stricken well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday confirmed the presence of low levels of oil below the surface.
“NOAA is confirming the presence of very low concentrations of subsurface oil,” Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told a briefing in Washington.
It was the first government confirmation of undersea oil near BP’s blown-out well a mile beneath the ocean. Previously, both NOAA and BP have played down the possibility of undersea plumes.
When university researchers aboard the Pelican
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