According to the U.S. Department of Energy‚ 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled in U.S. waters from vessels and pipelines in a typical year. A major spill could easily double that amount. Oil spills are one of the biggest and overall worst environmental disasters. These spills happen for many reasons. Some of these reasons include: people making mistakes or being careless‚ equipment breaking down‚ natural disasters such as hurricanes‚ deliberate acts by terrorists‚ countries at war‚ vandals
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The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill (HSOS) in December 7‚ 2007 spilled approximately 10‚900 tons of crude oil in about 10 km off the Taean coastline in South Korea. Due to the astronomical and irrecoverable damage upon the marine ecosystem and the overall living standards of the residents‚ the oil spill accident has been notoriously named as the “worst oil spill accident” occurred in Korea. Nevertheless‚ though almost a decade have passed since the outbreak of the HSOS in Korea‚ it appears that compensation
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Exxon Case Study In the early morning of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez a tanker carrying 55 million gallons crashed into Bligh Reef which is part of Prince William Sound. Prince William Sound is a small isolated town in the outskirts of Alaska. The Exxon Valdez spilled over 38‚000 gallons into the waters of Prince William Sound. The toxins from the oil injured 33‚000 people and eventually killed 8‚000 Alaskan fishermen after years of suffering from side effects from the spill. The Valdez’s accident
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S.O.S.E Script For more than 100 years‚ oils spills have been affecting most of our oceans‚ with a lot of oil pollution. This is a major problem and occurs around most of the world and sometimes in the same ocean a numerous amount of times. Oil spills‚ not only affect our oceans beauty but affect the marine life as well. But sometimes there is no way to prevent oil spills. A majority of oils spills are spilt into the oceans due to harsh water conditions or a hurricane. The U.S. Environmental
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Ethical Issues surrounding the BP Oil Spill By: Angela Higgins December 16‚ 2010 The BP Oil Spill which happened on April 20‚ 2010‚ was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history releasing approximately 185 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf. This event was the result of a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowing out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast offs the Louisiana coastline. Eleven men working on the oil rig platform were killed and
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First and foremost‚ British Petroleum oil company as well as” Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill”. It is one of the most terrible disaster that happened to humanity history. This is due the harm that it had in regards to humanity‚ environment and economy. The time line of the Deepwater horizon oil spill it was documented as the foulest oil spill in the US antiquity. On 20th April ‚2010 the blast and the decrease of the Deepwater horizon oil rig at the Gulf of Mexico that has murdered 11 folks and 17 other
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ON SUBMITTED TO: PROF STEVEN SHAPIRO SUBMITTED BY: POOJA OZA (0839378) INTRODUCTION Exxon Mobil Corporation‚ or ExxonMobil‚ is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving‚ Texas‚ United States. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil company‚ and was formed on November 30‚ 1999‚ by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. The world’s third largest company by revenue‚ ExxonMobil is also the second largest publicly traded company
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of Standard Oil Co. in 1870. Later in 1911 it breaks up into 34 companies as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision‚ two of them being Jersey Standard and Standard Oil Co. of New York (Socony). The former was known for the trade name Esso until it changed its name to Exxon Corporation. The latter changed its name to Mobil. In 1999‚ both eventually merged to become Exxon Mobil Corporation‚ which now market their products under three brands: Esso‚ Exxon‚ and Mobil. Organization Exxon Mobil is based
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company was 2nd largest oil company in the world with over 92‚000 employees. The company had to face a dark time in its history when on April 20‚ 2010 the Deepwater horizon oil spill occurred. Through 3 major cracks oil spilled into the ocean. Affected by the oil spill were five states; Alabama‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Texas and Florida. The disaster was if even comparable much worsted then any environmental disaster the US had to face since the result of the millions of gallons of oil spilt into the Gulf
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Running head: RESTORING A TARNISHED IMAGE Restoring A Tarnished Image- Global Challenges for Exxon-Mobil Case Study What should be done to improve the image of a company whose name is synonymous with environmental disaster and bribery? Exxon-Mobil’s C.E.O. Rex Tillerson faces this challenge. As C.E.O. of the largest publicly traded oil company in the world with the highest posted record profit ever in 2006 ( $39.5 billion) and revenues in excess of #377 billion‚ (www.boston.com) Tillerson
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