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Spill flow rate
New and Soon-to-be Improved Table -- a work in progress. Should look like this:

+-+ +-|||---|---|--|---|---+
 * |           |     Barrels     |    Gallons  | Cubic Meters |
 * Date   | Source     |   High |   Low |  High |  Low |   High | Low |
 * May 1  | Estimator  |  5,000 | 1,000 | etc.
 * Dec. 25 | Left align | 80,000 |20,000 |

Note: Text left aligned under Date or Source (those two headers left and bottom aligned, too) ; #s right aligned under "h" of High or "w" of Low, but units of measure (Barrels, etc.) centered just above dividing line of Hi/Lo columns

Experiment 1
Experiment 1A (preferred fix) : works in both cases (April 29 & Dec 25) but note how Barrels nicely absorbs High and Low, but same syntax apparently not working for Gallons and Cubic Meters -- can this be easily remedied? Odd pencil-thin extra column. Alignment of labels also needs fixing. Good to get all numeric columns same % width, adequate to display perhaps 9,999,999 in worst case, for gallons (this is a Daily estimate). Table itself does NOT need to take up 100% width of page and in fact should allow text to flow around, if not set flush right.

Experiment 1B: Delete class="wikitable" to isolate problems with High and Low center vs preferred right format

Experiment 1C: Delete class="wikitable" -- replace with border="1"

Experiment 1D: Delete class="wikitable" to isolate problems with High and Low center vs preferred right format; add  ( & + nbsp; ) to empty top rows

Experiment 1E: Delete class="wikitable" to isolate problems with High and Low center vs preferred right format; add  ( & + nbsp; ) to empty top rows and also add align=center to unit top rows (Barrels, etc.

Experiment 2
Experiment II: Trying rowspans and colspans without embedding in headers; this nicely removes extraneous lines from header. Data flow works in second case (Dec 25), but not the first (April 29). Odd.

Original Table
Sources to check and cite:

In their permit to drill the well, BP estimated the worst case flow at 162000 oilbbl per day. After the explosion BP and the United States Coast Guard initially estimated that the wellhead was leaking only 1000 oilbbl per day. Outside scientists quickly produced higher estimates, which presaged later increases in official numbers. Official estimates increased from 1000 to 5000 oilbbl per day on 29 April, to 12000 to 19000 oilbbl per day on 27 May,  to 25000 to 30000 oilbbl per day on 10 June,  and to between 35000 and 60000 oilbbl on 15 June. Internal BP documents, released by Congress, estimate the flow could be as much as 100000 oilbbl per day if the blowout preventer and wellhead were removed and if restrictions were incorrectly modeled.

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Thanks in advance! -- Paulscrawl (talk) 18:49, 9 July 2010 (UTC)