Exxon Valdez oil spill

Oil Drilling Regulations British Petroleum(BP) had a massive oil spill on April 20, 2010. In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of eighty seven days, making it the biggest oil spill in United States history. The initial oil rig explosion killed eleven people and injured seventeen others (“11 Facts”). The spill killed hundreds of animal, plant life and destroyed the environment. BP was penalized up to forty billion dollars in…

A long time ago, there were big sailing ships on the river. One night in a storm, a big ship sank. All the lanterns on board were lit as the ship went down. Now, they say that on stormy nights you can still hear the flame of the lanterns being extinguished as they clashed with the water, at exactly 11 O’ clock. There have also been sightings of ghostly figures roaming on the nearest shores or shadowy figures laying on pieces of debris afloat in the enormous body of water. Reports of this…

Tofino, BC boat tragedy ISSUE How is Transport Canada responding to the tragic boat accident that occurred near Tofino, BC? SUGGESTED RESPONSE We are cooperating with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada in their investigation to determine the root causes of the accident. An appointed departmental official will keep us informed on the investigation’s progress. Because safety is Transport Canada’s top priority, we have deployed three inspectors to the accident site who will verify that the…

Act for ensuring mechanical integrity and a safe start up. It was the first case under Clean Air Act. Leakage of crude oil from Alaskan oil pipelines was also an indicator of loose potential risk management. For this incident company was accused for the violation the Clean Water Act. While establishing the pipeline company ignored some of the essential aspect such as how the oil will be flowed or transported during poor weather condition. For more than a decade the corrosion of pipeline was…

and Alaska accidents never materialized. Instead four years went by and the company’s risk taking became worse. Just a year after the BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Tex., killing 15 workers and injured hundreds more the ‘Deepwater Horizon” oil well exploded in April 2010, resulting in death, fire, widespread environmental and economic damage along the Gulf coastline and is still felt today.…

The Deepwater Horizon disaster could have possibly been prevented if the crew would have made better decisions on that day in April. The crew neglected to acknowledge the anomalies present and the warning signs that the well was unstable. If evidence-based decision-making would have taking place on this day this disaster that killed 11 people may have been avoided. Evidence-based decision-making or (EBDM) is defined as a process of conscientiously using the best available data and evidence…

this helps to regulate the shark population, and by this protecting law, I believe it could save millions of shark getting killed by shark finning. However, it isn’t enough to save more sharks; the oil spills was the issue discuss in earlier. There is a difficulty to have entire disintegration of oil spills be done in the Gulf of Mexico, because it is depending on varying…

In 1987, Baker International and Hughes Tool Company merged and Baker Hughes Incorporated was conceived. Baker Hughes Incorporated is one of the world's largest oilfield services companies. Operations of Baker Hughes are carried out in over 90 countries all over the world having its main headquarters in the America Tower in Houston. Services provided by Baker Hughes are for drilling, completion, reservoir consulting, formation evaluation, production and unconventional solutions. Baker Hughes's…

known oil refinery in the world. It has been in operation for over 50 years. It is an energy and petrochemical group of companies, with its headquarters in Hague, Netherlands. It is important to note that Royal Dutch Shell plc is the parent company of Shell Group. The company not only deals with oil refinery but also it produces aviation and marine fuels, lubricants, waterproofing materials, natural gas, chemical feedstock and many other petroleum products (Kiong, 2013). It is a big oil…

On the 3rd November 2016 the Hazelwood Power Station, which produced brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, announced the entire plant would close at the end of March 2017. After supplying electricity to Victoria for over 50 years, the plant’s owners Engie argued that it was no longer economically viable to continue to run one of Australia’s most ‘dirty’ power plants, thus laying off almost 1,000 jobs. Engie states that the growing pressure for renewable energy was the main factor for the closure of…