Damage/Environment/Health/Compensation cost 6. Improvement and Prevention 7 6.1 Design and Process 6.2 Human resource 6.3 Safety and health 7.Conclusion 9 8. Reference 10 1.Introduction Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform began the oil production in 1976‚ first oil platform in the world and then later converted to gas production[1]. The piper alpha platform was ran by day shift
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Working Paper Series WP 09-4 July 2009 Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Proliferation Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland Abstract As a small country dependent on foreign trade and investment‚ North Korea should be highly vulnerable to external economic pressure. In June 2009‚ following North Korea’s second nuclear test‚ the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1874‚ broadening existing economic sanctions and tightening their enforcement. However
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will talk about is the fact the Magnetic North is NOT at the North Pole. This is because the magnetic North moves about a lot and does not always match up with the geographical north (the north pole). The diagram above shows us the difference between these two poles. The orange rectangle represents the giant ‘magnet’ inside the Earth and as you can tell (by the South pole facing the geographical North)‚ on a compass the magnetic North is really the geographical South on a
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Department of oil-gas industry Oil-gas industry division Safety in Petroleum Industry”(Ecological Management) ISW Ecological problems of Kazakhstan. Done By: Zhenis Seitekov Checked By: Bigaliyev Aitkhazha Bigaliyevich Almaty 2011 Contents: • Introduction • National environmental issues • The impact of landfills military space systems and test • Radioactive contamination • Oil and ecology • Air pollution • Aerosol pollution of the atmosphere • Conclusion
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Why Sea Water is Salty The “salt” in sea water‚ and some lakes that have no water outlet such as the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea‚ comes from ions of dissolved minerals‚ mainly chloride and sodium which make up about 90% of salt ions in sea water. There are three main ways that dissolved minerals enter the ocean: The water cycle‚ underwater geysers know as Hydrothermal Vents‚ and underwater volcanos. During the water cycle‚ water is evaporated from bodies of water by the heat of the
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commonly known as the Hawksbill Sea Turtle. The Hawksbill Sea Turtle has a lifespan of about 30 to 50 years. The turtle is an omnivore and consumes sea grasses‚ sea urchins‚ barnacles‚ small animals‚ and their favorite food‚ sponges (National Wildlife Federation). Regardless of their lifespan and diet‚ these turtles are dying quicker than normal because of the human race. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)‚ the Hawksbill Sea Turtle is classified as critically
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Greenland are melting‚ thus causing the sea levels to rise. This past summer‚ in a disconcerting new scientific study by the climate scientist Michiel Schaeffer and his fellow colleagues‚ had suggested that no matter how quickly we cut this pollution‚ we are unlikely to keep the seas from climbing; subsequently‚ what is worse is that rising seas can raise the launching pad for a storm surge. Accelerated rates of erosion are another cause that attributes to the sea level rise. For erosion causes large
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toxic agro-chemicals being washed into the River Rhine through drains and seep into surrounding soil with highly contaminated firewater. Within 10 days of the incident the pollution had travelled the length of the Rhine turning it red and into the North Sea. The River Rhine is an important central European River with many bordering countries. Causes & Management The cause of this fire is not yet clear but it is doubted that there was a leak present in the sacks or drums where the toxic materials
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number of British merchant and slave ships. This year‚ John Paul Jones lead an attack on the Bonhomme Richard. Here is a written account of John Paul Jones’ expedition to attack the Bonhomme Richard. “I received orders to sail west of Ireland and north of Scotland to intercept the enemy shipping around the Orcades‚ the Cape of Derneus‚ and Dogger Bank and to return to the Texel by October 1 to receive further orders. But as I had informed Dr. Franklin‚ through
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and 2 members of the rescue crew. The series of explosions that started at 10.00 pm destroyed the platform in less than one and a half hour. It happened on the production deck which consisted of four modules. Module A - oil is piped up from the sea Module B – Process oil and gas Module C - Process oil and gas Module D – Power generation The first explosion took place in module C‚ subsequently
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