Drilling

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…

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…

BP wasn’t even on the rig Deepwater Horizon, the blame for the most part shouldn’t be placed on BP, but on the companies that BP hired. Many people believe BP should be completely blamed because they are the company that hired everyone to do the drilling.…

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 when a worker bumped the controls which relocated the piping. Although “chunks” of the rubber component were found in drilling fluid, which indicated there was…

it for plastic which is in almost everything we use everyday. In 2008 it has been estimated the the arctic holds about 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil and enough natural gas to sustain us for about 15 years Climate change is here, and by drilling in the arctic we are just accelerating the process. what we should really worry about is the natural gas. Because oil companies are lacking of facilities for the transportation of gas at the poles, they would use flaring to get rid of unusable…

occurred in 1971.What happened to make this catastrophe. Well, one day in 1971, a group of soviet geologist went looking for an oil field. During the search they thought they found an oil field, so they began to drill. But little did they know they were drilling on a cavernous pocket of natural gas that couldn't support the weight of the drill. The gases that came out was a casualty for animal. So they lit the crater on fire thinking the gases would burn away. It's been 40 years and it still…

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 people and spilling 12 tons of oil. The spill was around 50 miles wide. The drilling platform was the first thing to explode and it left 27 missing. There was around 2200 tons of oily materials over double…

are sitting on your couch flipping through the channels, and you see a scene that catches your eye. A documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling. Then the documentary starts showing pictures of the possible effects of oil drilling. The pictures of an oil spill. Pictures of animals coated in oil. Pictures of oil floating on the surface of the ocean.…

Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico must be stopped.Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is horrible for lots of people and animals.It hurts are loving environment,are animals,and it hurts the wallet of the U.S. This drilling is killing are beautiful coral reefs.In this paper one is going to see how bad these horrible oil rigs are running are earth. Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico killies harmless little animals.The oil has killed birds,rare fish,and fish that people commerical fish for that we…

foreign oil imports in the past decade by nearly 60 percent. Despite the harmful effects drilling for oil has on the environment, and wildlife there are still many reason the U.S continues to import. Considering oil has been the back bone to the world’s economy for decades, we need to take control by putting regulations on all oil drilling globally. Altogether the world needs recognize the detrimental effects drilling for oil has on are ecosystem, wildlife, and depleting oil reserves. Oil has…