Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon well

The authors give many thanks to Stag Liuzza and Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and Mckee, Attorneys-at-Law and MaryLee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA) and Marco Kaltofen, of Boston Chemical Data Corp. (Natick, MA, USA), for the assistance in collecting the pre-capping samples used in this analysis.

This study received funding to analyze three of the post-capping samples from Stag Liuzza, LLC (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) and of Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and Mckee, Attorneys-at-Law (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA).