Oil Spill : Washington – a major oil spill is looming in the Gulf of Mexico and the United States, said Coast Guard officials said Saturday that the well at the site of the oil rig disaster in the leak.

The officer said John Edwards, CNN, which was 1000 barrels of oil – about 168,000 liters – leaking from at least two places, on the ground in the Gulf region under the site.

One of the holes in a good physical, while the second was from a leaking pipe is connected as well. The Coast Guard was using a robotic camera to search in the region and on Saturday did not find any evidence of a leak.

Was reached to the prospects rig in deep water on Tuesday night in an explosion, leaving it burning until it sank on Thursday. It was not the cause of the explosion on the drilling rig owned by Swiss contractor Transocean Ltd. identified.

Search suspended for missing 11 crew members. Crew members were evacuated another 115, and 17 wounded in the blast.

‘Command has shifted to focus on containment and recovery operations, “said Edwards.

Rig sank about about 84 km south-east of Venice, Louisiana.

The newspaper reported the Houston Chronicle, the sheen has spread to 32 kilometers of 32 by Saturday, from 3 in the Kilometre 13 on Friday.

‘This is a very serious leak,’ said Rear Adm. Mary Landry, told reporters on Saturday.

The blast occurred while the rig drilling the end of the 6000 – meter exploration well BP giant British Petroleum. According to the facts and the company was striving to learn how to seal off the well in the bottom of the sea.

Heavy weather that brought the devastating hurricanes on the Gulf Coast has also raised the heavy seas that forced the oil-skimming boats to return to shore.

Clean and contained already more than 132,000 liters of oily water mixture from the surface of the earth. Was stored 2.8 million liters of diesel fuel on the rig and have not been recovered.

The Coast Guard warned that more crude oil leak that would constitute a threat to extreme fishing industry, commercial and entertainment in the Gulf region and on the coast environmentally fragile Louisiana and other neighboring states.

On March 31, and support President Barack Obama, drilling for oil and natural gas off the coast of parts of the United States as part of the

And the drilling of an estimated 90 drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to provide 1.7 million barrels of oil a day, nearly one third of total U.S. production

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