Oil spill

looking back at reality, imagine a pipeline transporting oil from Canada to the United States but with many negative impacts. Coincidentally, there is a proposed 1,179 mile and 36-inch diameter pipeline which will bring crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, known as the Keystone XL Pipeline (“Keystone XL Pipeline Project”). If the Keystone XL Pipeline was built, it would have the capacity to transport approximately 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day to refineries in Oklahoma, Illinois and…

of sea turtles are endangered. One of the top unnatural causes for sea turtle deaths is oil spills. Oil…

ethics and the associated ethical concepts of the area they include ecological footprint, anthropocentric, instrumental value and intrinsic value. I’ll be using the BP oil spill and its rebranding of the company as a case study that demonstrates a graphic design ethical issue but mainly focuses on the broader environmental issues. The spill has impacted on the ocean’s ecosystem and was a controversial issue due to the way BP tried to resolve the catastrophic event. Environmental ethics discuss…

have been over the VW controversy with their faulty emission standards and others like the BP oil spill. They have been widely discussed in ethical settings and are huge environmental dilemmas. The articles too have been interesting to read, some of it is review from undergrad but it is to refresh on some of the concepts they discuss like moral standards and…

Lauren Tarshis and Kristin Lewis have both written amazings stories about Penguins that have been stuck in an oil spill that is really harmful to animals. Lauren Tarshis wrote “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” which is about 40,000 penguins that were in an oil spill and the people that helped them. Kristin Lewis wrote “The Seabird Chronicle” which is about saving the penguins that were in the oil spill and then making sure that they were all cleaned off. According to “The amazing Penguin Rescue” and…

Horizon Oil spill. The first report published in Science magazine focused on the effect of the methane (CH4) release. In contrast to the earlier published article the second, published in Environmental Science magazine amassed data on the spread of the CH4 plumes. While in ordinary conditions CH4 in the ocean is no cause for alarm, the natural process being able to be safely transported out in the form of CO2. This conversion process is called oxidation. In the case of innumerable gallons of oil…

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 17.The oil rig was operated by the British oil company ,British Petroleum, also known as BP. The results from the accident were devastating as approximately seventeen workers were injured and eleven died . The explosion caused oil pipes to burst and spill thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the incident has since turned into one of the worst environmental…

2010, an oil rig drilling roughly 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded causing a disaster on levels not previously seen in history. The facts of this instance are summed up in an article from the Smithsonian Institute, “The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas…

an exploration of gas and oil, refineries, manufacturing, markets, transports, supplies, crude oil, petroleum, jet fuel, and customers on the wholesale and retail levels (CFRA Equity Research, 2017). The Gulf Coast on April 20, 2010 experience the largest oil spill in United States history from a ruptured line on the Deepwater Horizon resulting in 200 million…

Macondo was not the first oil spill accident in offshore platforms, and will not be the last either. The resulting explosions and fire led to the deaths of 11 individuals, serious physical injuries to 17 others, the evacuation of 115 individuals from the rig, the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon well, and massive marine and coastal damage from a reported 210 million barrels of released hydrocarbons. Other notable oil spill accident is the explosion of Oil well Ixtoc 1 in the Bay of Campeche in…