BP board game predicts gulf oil spill disaster

From myfoxboston, A BP board game called 'Offshore Oil Strike' from the 1970s may have actually predicted what is now being called the worse environmental disaster in our nation's history.

The object of the game is to become an oil tycoon by digging for oil offshore.

According to the UK’s Metro , in the game - which is is very rare - players try to avoid ‘hazard cards’, which say things like ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’

The British company has now seen its costs from the spill reach $3.12 billion, a figure that doesn't include a $20 billion fund for damages the company created last month.

Twenty-seven nations have offered clean-up assistance to the U.S., including Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.

An estimated 1.6 million to 3.6 million barrels of oil (67 million to 153 million gallons) have already poured into the Gulf from some 5,000 feet below the surface since the April 20 explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig.