Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that, over a period of five months following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, naturally-occurring bacteria that exist in the Gulf of Mexico consumed and removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas that flowed into the deep Gulf from the ruptured well head.rnThe researchers analyzed an extensive data set to determine not only how much oil and gas was degraded by bacteria, but also how the characteristics of this residual oil changed with time.
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