Oils

(Smithsonian Natural Museum of Hihttp://ocean.si.edu/gulf-oil-spill) In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, which was owned by the British Petroleum Co., blew up and spilled more than 200 million gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The leakage from the rig lasted about 87 days, which made it the biggest oil spill in American history. The Gulf coastlines the American states of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and a bit of Alabama. The oil spill affected many things, it took the lives of many…

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon incident, an oil spill, ripped through the Gulf of Mexico spilling 60,000 gallons of oil a day (Freudenberg and Gramling 13). It was referred to by President Obama in a speech as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” As a resident of an island nation, I saw my country get more and more anxious. We were unsure of how the oil would impact our marine life and ultimately our economy as fishing is one of our main industries. The stress of this…

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…

were closed to fishing and other commercial activities. Just top put it in context, the estimated amount of oil spill is enough to fill 311 Olympic size swimming pools. BP’s initial response has been widely condemned as lacking sincerity and will to stem the flow of the oil into the Gulf region. For example, the company initially told the public that the rig was leaking 1000 barrels of crude oil per day into the Gulf. The figure turned out to be much higher, in the region of 5000 barrels per…

BP Oil Spill When presented with this project during class, my group and I knew it would be a challenge, but knew with the right topic we could easily overcome the challenge. We thought long and hard about what topic we wanted to research. It had to be something that was interesting, impactful and well known. We thought of controversial topics, headliner news stories, and topics with familiarity. In the end, we chose to use British Petroleum’s (BP) Oil Spill in the Gulf Coast during 2010. The…

Flashback to April 10th, 2010 BP had an oil spill, which killed/ effected millions. BP is one of the seven “supermajor” oil and gas companies. BP, also referred to by its former name British Petroleum. It’s in over 70 different countries some including, England, U.S, Australia and many more. The green and yellow slogan suggests an environmental friendly company looking for a change towards alternate energy sources such as solar and wind. BP is one of the major oil companies investing in all of…

and abandoned and coated with oil. A place that once attracted people and animals alike. That is the future if offshore oil drilling continues. Crude oil has been a prominent industry since the late 19th century. In today 's world, the demand for oil has reached an all time high. Therefore, the desperate search for more fuel has prompted the exploitation of oil resources through methods such as offshore oil drilling. Offshore oil drilling is the method of extracting oil from the seabed of…

midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran into Bligh Reef. The result was the release of about 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska, loss of wildlife, and new environmental policies. The aim of this investigation is to identify the environmental policies that developed as a result of the oil spill, analyze why and if these policies were enacted, and search for evidence to either affirm or refute whether the oil spill made an impact on the…

A Gulf Oil Spill Rhetorical Analysis As of May 2015, Forbes places that the net worth of the BP company at more than 120.8 billion dollars (Forbes). BP operates in nearly 80 countries and produces more than 3.2 million barrels of oil per day (BP, 2015). Without a doubt, the events of April 20th, 2010 and the days that followed had a profound impact on their business as well as the environment. Cleanup efforts and continued research of marine life and surrounding ecosystem have been extensive,…

relation to the BP oil spill, Lance Duerfahrd notes how Burtynsky’s photography encourages viewers “to become art historians” by way of “abstraction” (Duerfahrd 126). “Bitumen” also asks this of its readers by situating Burtynsky’s photography within the tradition of the sublime, while it also compels scrutiny of the “anaesthetics” and abstraction at work in Burtynsky’s OIL. In the following passage, the poem describes “Burtynsky’s drone helicopters” and the photographs of the Alberta Oil Sands…