Drilling rig

articles but mostly deriving from "Special Report: Why the BP Oil Rig Blowout Happened,” written by Carl Hoffman. October 7, 2009 - BP began drilling on a rig called “the Marianas” but due to a hurricane in November 2009, the rig was damaged. Transocean, a well-known drilling company, was hired by BP to take care of the drilling of the Horizon rig. February of 2010, - The introduction of the Horizon well was brought about and drilling resumed. Although the scheduled completion date for the…

Oil Rigs provide today’s world with the energy needed to continue. On April 20, 2010, the Deep Horizon Oil Rig, drilling at the Macondo Well forty-one miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded causing much devastation. The blast, that affected many, was caused due to carelessness by workers on the rig. The havoc caused by the Deep Horizon Oil Rig Blast affected normal life for months. The large amount of oil released into the ocean had negative short and long term effects on aquatic and…

coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. If ethical issues of the BP oil company were handled correctly and responsibly it is very likely the spill would never have occurred. The BP oil spill originated from the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was owned and operated by a drilling company known as Transocean, which was…

President and Chief Executive Officer Anthony Petrello of Nabors Industries offers insight into the energy market and how recent trends will effect the company. Since Nabors Industries is a drilling contractor providing land-based and off-shore drilling rigs for gas and oil extraction, including specialty rigs, in 20 countries worldwide, any change in oil prices will affect the companys' customer's spending, and Nabor's revenue. Petrello analyzes key customer's projected operations nationally…

BP had over the Transocean rig. Petroleum (BP), is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is a multi-billion company providing over 16,000 jobs in the United States. BP offers exploration for natural gas (BP, n.d.). The United States provides for nearly one-third of BP’s worldwide business interests. Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling contractors, based out of Vernier, Switzerland. They specialise in jack-up rigs (Transocean, n.d.).…

Polar Bears vs. Oil Drilling According to National Geographic in 2008, “The Endangered Species Act" has listed polar bears as threatened everywhere in the world they occur. Polar bears can only survive in areas where the oceans freeze" (National Geographic 2008). This decrease in population is a result of oil drilling in the arctic. The negative effects of oil drilling have spread to habitat loss, consumption of health declining chemicals, and impacts on polar bear family life/ birth rates.…

Oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas is a very controversial topic. Oil is very important and we depend on oil for many daily uses. Although we have developed other alternative sources of oil, such as solar power, solar power only operates when receiving power from the sun. People depend on oil even with the use of solar power. The use of oil has been the number one source of energy since the early 1900’s. People generally do not realize how much they truly depend on oil. Without the…

Final azimuth at TD of 6,238m MD/2,903m TVD was 162º. The 216mm drilling BHA consisted of the bit, point the bit rotary steerable tool, Bed Boundary Mapping Tool, Multifunction LWD/Density Neutron tool, MWD and Formation Pressure tool, Stabilizer, two Flex Non Magnetic Drill collar, three heavy weight drill pipe, 5,651m…

Ethics in Engineering: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (BP 2010) Deepwater Horizon was an oil-drilling rig located in the Macondo well, 41 miles south of Louisiana, and operated by BP (British Petroleum Company). On April 20th, 2010 an explosion in the rig killed 11 people and would consequently lead to the biggest oil spill in history. The rig leaked for almost 90 days causing severe environmental damage, as according to new estimates 205.8 million gallons of crude oil were released to the Gulf…

As of lately, a process called hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has been all over news channels across America and other countries. Hydraulic Fracturing is defined as a process by which fractures in the rocks below the Earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting sand and/or chemicals at high pressure to extract natural gas or oil ("What is Fracking?"). Fracking is used to extract shale gas, tight sand gas, tight sand oil, and coal seam gas (better known as methane). Hydraulic fracturing…