A United Nations expert group that I led put the figure significantly higher. Similarly, whereas BP has been using a release figure of 800 tons per day From Deepwater Horizon, estimates by independent experts are many times higher.
在“伊克斯托克”泄漏事件中，墨西哥石油公司采用上述方法（目的是尽可能压低损失数据）估算泄漏总量不足50万吨。我所率领的联合国专家小组估算的数据比这高得多。与此相似，英国石油公司公布的“深水地平线”泄漏数据为每天800吨，而独立专家小组所做的估算比这高出很多倍。