Oil spill

British Petroleum took a massive hit to public image, brand name, and to the overall prosperity of the company, following the oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010. The spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi River Delta, at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Facility (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill). Since this horrific incident, which basically crippled the company, they have been employing numerous tactics to try to recover from it. There are two categories in which one can place…

INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY The Chronology of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Incident The timeline of this incident will be based on the ‘National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Report’. In the year of 1989 of March 22 (11.35pm), the Exxon Valdez arrived at the berth 5, Aleyska Marine Terminal to load a cargo of Alaska North Slope crude oil. Figure 2.1: The Exxon Valdez (Shigenake, G. 2014) The total load of 1.3 Million barrels of oil took approximately a day to complete filling up the…

more thing that is very important, which is called an oil spill. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, and is a form of pollution. Most of the time oil spills happen in the marine but sometimes happen on land. Not many people think about oil spills, this is because people think that oil spills are not as important, and do not create threats that much. But all of these theories are wrong because oil spills not only harm the Earth, but kill many…

Known as the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, this tragedy is considered one of the most detrimental accidents concerning the environment. This oil spill occurred approximately forty-one miles off the coast of Louisiana, after a natural gas explosion ignited the rig. An estimated more than 60,000 gallons of oil spilled from this leakage. The intent of this paper is to highlight the effects seceding the oil spill, including key stakeholders negatively affected such as: property owners along the…

On March 24, 1989, one of the worst recorded oil spills occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska (Seitel, 2011, p.100). A 987-foot tanker from Exxon Mobil Corp., the Exxon Valdez, spilled 260,000 barrels of oil after the intoxicated ship captain “ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez” (Seitel, 2011, p.101). The oil spill damaged over 1,300 square miles of coast line and caused the death of various sea life, including over 4,000 Alaskan sea otters (Seitel, 2012, p.101).…

Oil Spills and How They Affect The Environment Oil spills, no matter how small or large, effect the worlds environment by their destroying and poisoning any habitat they come in contact with, mainly the water though. These spills can be devastating because they disrupt what we know as the food chain. The food chain starts with producers who are ate by small animals which are ate by larger and larger animals until the top predator is reached, humans. Oddly enough…

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was a tragic mishap on BP’s behalf, killing several rig workers and having many other outreaching effects. The amount of crude oil that was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of approximately three months was 4.9 million barrels of oil and to go along with that, 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants to the Gulf. A major group of crude oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was discovered along the northern shorelines of the Gulf of Mexico.…

Many people would associate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 as the world’s worst human-caused ecological disaster, citing the devastating effect the spilled oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Although the slick has spread over a large area, destroy BP’s publicity, and has killed many marine-based wildlife, other events in history makes the oil spill appear incredibly minor in comparison. For example, in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the Dust Bowl, a result of bad farming techniques…

Risk assessment of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion and Oil Spill and Current Layout Shishir Tripathi Abstract—The explosion and the consequent sinking of Deepwater Horizon oil rig resulted in one of the worst accidental oil spill disaster in the history of petroleum industry. The investigation reports conclude several causes leading to the disaster. The primary cause for the incident, however, is attributed to the negligence and absence of disaster management procedures and protocols. The…

The environmental case study of choice is oil spillage in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. I decided to write on oil spills in Niger Delta region of Nigeria because it affects the poor and vulnerable populations who are unable to confront the multinational oil companies and government who are benefiting from the proceeds of oil exploration. The region which is home to 20 million people consists of 40 different ethnic groups and occupies 7.5 per cent of the nation’s total land mass (Kadafa, 2012).…