NYTimes - May 1, 2010
"...the frantic efforts to contain the estimated 210,000 gallons a day still leaking 11 days after the rig exploded and sank."
"It doesn’t really matter, the admiral said, whether it is 1,000 barrels or 5,000 barrels a day that are leaking. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02oil.html