BP oil spill caused tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day to be dumped into the Gulf of Mexico (Schrope, 2010). The BP oil spill was one of the worst disasters that have taken place. It took BP three months to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf. The BP oil spill was a disaster that was being watched by many people in the world and everyone expected BP to provide detail information about the fix and a resolution to why the blowout happened. The community wanted to know what actions BP plan to put in place to make sure this problem do not happen again. The public wanted to know about the impact the spill was having on the organisms, fishes, and other animals living in the gulf (Schrope, 2010). The public expected briefings on the cleanup efforts that plan BP was putting into place when the oil reached the shores. BP did not utilize information technology to the extent that it was available because took too long to cap off the flow of the oil. Information technology did help BP to a certain degree. High …show more content…
With technology constantly evolving, BP should have monitoring devices on the wells that will give them the ability to know when a piece of equipment is at the end of its life or if there is a disaster that is getting ready to happen to an oil well. For instance, the system that I support have monitoring software with the ability to notify someone through text, email, or alters to a computer monitor that an application has put out a critical error or that a piece of hardware has gone down. BP could have installed this type of technology on their wells. Another type of technology BP could have used is the different social media outlets to keep people inform about the improvements of the spill fix, clean up, and future actions that will be put into place to prevent the disaster from happening
The BP oil spill began with the explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit known as the Deepwater Horizon, then operating in the Macondo Prospect Oil Field some 60 kilometers off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana, on April 29, 2010. The leak was capped on July 15, 2010, with a repair to the underwater wellhead ruptured by the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Thus, the BP oil spill lasted for about three months. During this time, roughly 5 million barrels of crude oil leaked from the wellhead into the Gulf of Mexico. The flow rate was not uniform, beginning...
All the above stakeholders impacted by oil spill but differently unfortunately, the oil spilled into the ocean and killing all the fish and wash off the coast spread through rivers, affecting the fishermen and BP company affected by because they need to clean all this was to be able to cover the costs, and bad publicity the oil spill has affected governments w...
The Ocean Ranger The Ocean Ranger was an offshore exploration oil drilling platform that sank in Canadian waters 315 kilometres southeast from St. John's Newfoundland, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on February 15, 1982, with 84 crewmembers onboard. The Ocean Ranger was the largest semi-submersible, offshore exploration, oil drilling platform of the day. Built in 1976 by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, it operated off the coasts of Alaska, New Jersey, Ireland, and in November 1980 moved to the Grand Banks. Since it was so big, it was considered to have the ability to drill in areas too dangerous for other rigs.
In 2010, there was a huge oil spill near the Gulf of Mexico that we now know as the BP Oil Spill today. The Spill sent about 170 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill killed 11 men aboard the deep-water Horizon. The BP Oil Spill impacted the environment very negatively. There were different types of environmental impact as a result of the Oil Spill, but the two that grabbed my attention the most are the Polluted Air and the Contaminated Food Chain. The first impact that grabbed my attention was the Polluted Air. Because of the Oil Spill, the air around the surroundings neighborhoods was polluted. All the lightest chemicals in the oil that had spill evaporated within hours of the incidence forming air pollution particles. These particles that are in the air poses significant threats to the human health from being inhaled. The chemical found in the particles that was formed is known as Volatile, which has been known to cause respiratory irritation and central nervous system depression (Solomon & Janssen, 2010). The second impact that grabbed my attention was the contamination of the food chain, specifically the food chain of sea animals that lives near the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists found traces of oil in zooplanktons; this could only mean that the sea creature has had contact with the spilled oil. According to the Staff at Houston Business Journal (2012), “Baby fish and shrimp feed on the tiny, drifting zooplankton, and then introduce contamination and pollution to the larger sea creatures in the food web.” With these findings, it isn’t going to take long before the baby fishes become grown and caught by fishermen and before we know it, it’s on our dinner plate. And here we are eating fishes w...
British Petroleum (“BP”) is the company that is being blamed for the incident. Employing 80,000 people, BP is an international oil company that puts different technology to use for finding oil and gas under the Earth’s surface. One of the oilrigs, Deepwater Horizon has drilled 35,000 ft. making it to be the deepest drilling of oil and gas (Walsh). Deepwater Horizon was drilling in the Gulf of Mexico about 52 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip. After the explosion, helicopters searched for 11 crewmembers that reported missing. 17 people were injured (BP Internal Investigation Team). A day later, the rig was found upside down (BP Oil Spill Timeline). The cost to clean up the damage is approximately $760 million (Walsh).
...gy can successfully replace oil. Just as oil will not run out overnight, its replacement will be equally gradual. The success of this transition is largely contingent on time management. Presently, there is no nation privy to a miracle solution. A bulk of available alternative energy sources are not self sufficient, and require oil to jump start their production. Solar panels, while a step in the right direction, are built in factories, shipped in trucks, flown in planes dependent on oil. Oil needs to be conserved, reserved solely for uses that will benefit future generations, such as creating green energy products. As long as there exists a shadow of a doubt as to the inevitability of peak oil, the existence of debate serves not only as an obstacle, but as a cause for hope. When everyone is forced to acknowledge the peak oil issue, it may very well be too late.
“On March 23, 2005, at 1:20 pm, the BP Texas City Refinery suffered one of the worst industrial disasters in recent U.S. history. Explosions and fires killed 15 people and injured another 180, alarmed the community, and resulted in financial losses exceeding $1.5 billion.” (U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, 2007) There are many small and big decisions and oversights that led to the incident. Underneath all the specific actions or inaction is a blatant disregard for addressing safety violations and procedures that had been pointed out to BP even years before this event. The use of outdated equipment and budget cuts also contributed to the circumstances that allowed this accident to happen.
The United States uses more than 21 million barrels of oil each day, the uses are gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, and diesel fuel. On April 20, 2010 an explosion damaged the oil rig of the coast of Louisiana and over the next three months, a total of 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill caused environmental damage and thousands of animals and their habitats died as a result. BP did take responsibility and paid for the clean up and compensated the victims. After the spill, the U.S. Department of Interior issued and then later overturned a moratorium on off-shore drilling, but critics argued that it would cause thousands of workers to be laid off, but they were still suffering from the recession and the loss of jobs caused by the oil
Most people believe that one man-made natural disaster would teach us to be better, but we have learned that history repeats itself. The Exxon Valdez oil spill (in 1989) and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or BP oil spill, (in 2010) were both devastating oil spills that shocked the nation. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred due to a tanker grounding. The BP oil spill was caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform. These two oil spills were both disasters and had greater effects in certain categories. In this essay, I will be comparing the cause of both oil spills, the damage/effect of both oil spills, and the cleanup of each oil spill.
During the BP Oil Spill in 2010, there were so many causes of that spill. However, causes always come with the effects and the same thing happened in this case. There were so many effects of the oil spill in the gulf which affected the people, environment, and nature in bad manners. The few effects of the BP Oil Spill were the Spill of the oil in the ocean, the stocks of the BP start falling and the fines for not using the right material.
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The oil rig sank a day-and-a-half later. The spill was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and BP oil disaster. It was first said that little oil had actually leaked into the ocean but a little over a month later the estimate was 12,000-19,000 barrels of crude oil being leaked per day. Many attempts were made to stop the leak but all failed until they capped the leak on July 15, 2010, and on September 19 the federal government declared the well “effectively dead.” In the three months that it took to finally put a stop the leak, 4.9 million barrels of oil were released into the ocean. The spill caused considerable damage to marine and wildlife habitats and the Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. The White House energy advisor, Carol Browner, goes as far to say that the Deepwater oil spill is the “worst environmental disaster the US has faced.”
On the summer of 2010, the petroleum industry was shaken by one of the largest disasters in history known as the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This resulted in the killing of eleven people, injuring of seventeen and an immeasurable damage to the ocean and the surrounding communities. BP had to immediately respond to the crisis and handle their financial and reputational risks.
The purpose of my experiment is to determine whether human hair or animal hair is better at absorbing oil. In order to find this out, the following questions have been researched, how do you clean an oil spill? Why does hair soak up oil? How is the hair used? Does type/color matter? How effective is it? I will have 10 trails, using the same amount of hair and oil each time, the oil will also be mixed with water to duplicate a more accurate oil spill environment.
Luckily everyone is given a chance to change what they have done. One solution that CNR can attempt is, to manage their oil pipes better by checking them more frequently and notifying any complication immediately. They can also hire more employees to supervise the pipelines and use advanced technology such as detected sirens and cameras to keep a close eye the pipelines. This will create more job opportunities and if everything is well maintained then small leaks will be reported as soon as possible, stopping them from becoming big leaks. But some of the pipes are located underground which means it will be very hard to supervise underground pipelines. To supervise the underground pipelines they will need to create a pathway for the employees or they will need to plant cameras and sirens underground which will cost them thousands of dollars. Another attempt CNR can make is to invest in a research group that will investigate on new oil well technology and a different route for the pipeline where it is less probable to cause a leak. Once a successful investigation is through the company can plan and organize a new route for the pipelines. Having new technology will improve the protection of pipes. But it will take some years to collect enough money to construct new routes and accomplish a proper research. Our reliance on oil based products and services is
On a Monday afternoon, A couple of friends and I drove about forty-five minutes to El Dorado to see a movie. A movie in which we didn’t know anything about. None of us had even seen the trailer. I sent my friend a link to the movies that were showing at the cinema in El Dorado, and she had chosen Deepwater Horizon solely on the fact she liked the actors that had been cast for the movie. A few of these actors included Mark Wahlberg and Kate Hudson. Deepwater Horizon, as I came to find out on the car ride there, is about the most devastating oil spill in United States history. Since this event occurred only roughly six years ago, I recognized it after my friend called it the BP oil spill. Growing up in south Arkansas, I know many people that work on oil rigs so the spill was something that came close to home. The movie portrays the events leading up to the rig explosion and the aftermath concerning the people aboard the rig.