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    Bp Oil Spill Essay

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    Although often identified as the BP Oil Spill, the disaster occurred at the Macondo well and upon the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Deepwater Horizon which was classified as a semi-submersible drilling rig was leased by BP Oil at a cost of $533,000 per day from Transocean, and at the time of the incident was 45 days behind schedule (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan (2013). Records indicate that several weeks prior to the incident, an inadvertent dislocation of pipe in the blowout preventer occurred…

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    was caused by the failure of a cement base of the drilling-well. An explosion occurred due to the combination of: a faulty base, the flow of high pressure gases, and mechanical problems. A safety mechanism called the “blowout preventer” uses drill pipe to seal off the well in events like this. This preventer also failed, allowing for the oil spill to continue to leak. It was found that a nitrogen foam based cement was used in constructing the drilling-well base. The cement quality did not meet…

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    Deepwater Horizon Tragedy

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    Environmentalists were angry after the disaster occurred and blamed federal regulators. However, they hadn’t been focused on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before the explosion either. MMS took recommendation from the oil industry, specifically the American Petroleum Institute, when determining regulations on oil drilling. They trusted that the industry was up to date on technology and thus allowed the oil companies to dictate the regulations that they were being held to…

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    11\302017 Deepwater Horizon In 2010 the ab oil rig had a massive explosion and burned for two day without stopping. There was around 280 million gallons of oil leaked into the ocean. It killed lots of animals and left beaches really dirty witch killed lots of birds who landed on the beaches. This event took place in the gulf of mexico. It killed around 114,065 animals around 6000 sea turtles 25000 sea animals and 82000 birds. The oil rig took two days to sink into the ocean killing 11…

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    Westside Hotel Case Study

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    retrieve equipment which had fallen into a hole during a dig, when the rig malfunctioned dropping the equipment into the hole. He said this was the only time he had used a spear and was not trying to reference in the email to CNA he had used a spear in relation to the claim under E2D65984. Mr. Doel related that under claim E2D65984, continued to be alleged that burglaries came on to the unsecured site where he had left his drilling equipment while he was excavating a water well for a client.…

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    Bp Oil Crisis Essay

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    The Crisis Description On April 20, 2010 an accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico when the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded resulting in the death of eleven people and injuring many others. The accident occurred because of function failures and it resulted in the explosion which led to a huge fire, the sinking of a ship and subsequent oil spill. The fire burned for approximately thirty-six hours. The effect of this crisis resulted in…

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    On April 20, 2010, an oil spill on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon took place. To date, the oil spill is the largest in history, and was caused by a multitude of factors. In February 2009, British Petroleum (BP), proposed a plan to drill in the Macondo well to the Minerals Management Service (MMS). The Macondo well is off the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/161185/). BP was looking to expand their oil drilling, which was the motivation for…

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    Oil Rig Regulations

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    There are many regulations that are currently in place for the oil rigs. Tougher laws should be put in place and add harsher requirements aiming at the prevention of equipment failures that cause damage to the environment. Tougher safety requirements could be put in place of the already applied laws such as policies that require the oil industry to regulate oil and gas production, air quality, cultural resources, ecological resources (fish, wildlife, mammals, etc.), energy development, hazardous…

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    Perrin's Argument Analysis

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    The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 is often called the worst oil spill in US history. On April twentieth 2010 BP oil rig exploded killing eleven people and causing a leakage of about 3.19 million barrels to pour into the gulf. The twenty-two mile long plume not only rested on the surface of the water, but also adhered together and fell to the ocean floor. This largely and negatively affected marine life. The number of average number of dolphin deaths per year went from sixty-three to one hundred and…

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    of the main problems with the NRDA is that the findings of the assessment cannot be released until after litigation is complete, which takes years. This means that the latest science cannot be factored into policy-makers decisions; in fact, new drilling permits were issued in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster without consideration for the NRDA process due to its lack of transparency. This gave BP a clear upper hand and left communities, whose tax money funds these assessments, out of…

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