HOUSTON, May 5 (Reuters) - An executive with BP Plc on Wednesday said a ruptured well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico could gush at 60,000 barrels per day if all the equipment on the sea floor restricting the current flow were removed.
"If the existing BOP (blow-out preventer) and all the equipment were removed, it could get up to that rate," Doug Suttles, a BP executive said when asked at a media briefing about the company’s worst-case scenario analysis.
