Deepwater Horizon cap is demolished--Apocolypse now?

Let's say a terrorist organization decides to attack the cap on the Deepwater Horizon oil well. They use high powered explosives to blow such a large hole in the sea bed that there is no viable way to even attach a capping mechanism like the original one to the severely unstable edges of the hole.

In the original disaster, Wikipedia states:

BP originally estimated a flow rate of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day (160 to 790 m3/d). The Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) estimated the flow rate was 62,000 barrels per day.

Is this a viable end of the world scenario? If not, why? Please take into consideration:

• long term ecological effects

• long term economic effects

posted almost 8 years ago

Thom Blair III‭

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