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 was critically injured, underwater cameras observable the British petroleum pipe was dripping oil and gas to the ocean inner face about 42 miles off the coast.…
BP dedicated a portion of its restoration website to highlight technological advancements it has implemented for safer oil drilling, in hope of restoring public trust in the company. This portion of the website, titled “Safer drilling”, explains what went wrong during the oil spill and the lessons BP has learned from the spill. One of the documents provided goes in-depth into the analysis of all the problems that occurred during the spill. An easy to understand graphic explains the eight different well integrity issues that caused the spill, and then explains how BP has changed its standard operations in response to these failings. The rest of document is broken into sub-sections that relate to each of these issues. For example, a section on oil spill containment is presented, which outlines the mobile “BP Global Deepwater Well Cap and Tooling Package” that BP created encase of other oil spill. The package can be deployed anywhere in the world within hours and provides all the necessary tools for capping a deep-water oil rig, and cleaning any oil spilled. This section of the website was created because it is essential in restoring public faith in the company’s ability to operate its daily…
BP’s primary goal was to clean up the spill as quickly as possible. It wanted to plug the hole in the oilrig to prevent more oil from dispersing into the ocean. BP also wanted to restore the environment, the local economy’s that were affected, and also their own image as an organization.…
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster, or the Macondo blowout) occurred on April 20th 2010. Methane gas from the Macondo wellhead (that was being closed off) leaked up onto the drill rig and exploded, killing 11 people and starting the largest ocean toxicology experiment in the world.…
Villines, Aubrey N., "Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Thesis…
BP 's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010 killing 11 people and had leaked 2.5 million gallons daily of crude oil into the Gulf before BP capped the leak on 060310. Some scientists are saying the estimate is closer to 4 million gallons daily of oil leakage and based on some government estimates more than 140 million gallons of crude have now spewed from the well. This should not have been a surprise – BP has had previous problems that either people read about and thought that it didn 't really affect them or the incidents weren 't as highly media-ized as could have been. BP announced on 071906 that they would shut down the last 12 oil wells in Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay that leaked insulating agent consisting of crude oil and diesel fuel. Mother Jones Magazine called BP one of the "ten worst corporations" in 2001 and 2005 because of their miserable environmental and human rights records. Based on EPA toxic release data, in…
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered to be the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. The spill was the result of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig. When the rig exploded, it created a sea-floor gusher of oil that flowed freely for three months. It resulted in 11 people killed and 17 others injured. In addition to the injuries and loss of human life, there were detrimental impacts to the environment both long and short term. By the time the leak was capped, there had been 4.9 million barrels of crude oil released. The amount…
On 20 April 2010, a histroy has been made in the United States of America. The world’s largest gas releasing and explosion had been occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig working on Macondo exploration well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, which is a short form for British Petroleum, one of the world’s renowned supermajor oil and gas companies. After the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days which was the longest oil spilling in the history. Before the rig was sunk, the fire had been burning for 36 hours straight and hydrocarbons leaked into the Gulf of Mexico until it was capped on 15 July 2010. In the accidents, seventeen people were injured and eleven people were reported missing.…
Upon the evening of April 20th, 2010, a series of deadly explosions occurred within the oil rig giant, Deepwater Horizon, an immense offshore drilling platform, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast (Steffy, 2011). These explosions were due to a defective blowout preventer and numerous gas leaks seeping up and through the well to the riser pipe, connecting to the rig, igniting fire. The efforts of attempting to save this flame ridden platform was lost on April 22, 2010, for the rig, Deepwater Horizon, sunk. As the rig’s drilling platform fell into the sea, the riser pipe, leading to the well, was crushed, left crumpled and leaking in several places on the ocean floor (Landau, 2011). Over 205.8 million gallons of crude oil was…
The Oil Spill, due to the mismanaged oil drilling by British Petroleum (BP), in the Gulf of Mexico, has turned into one of the worst environmental disasters to happen to an ocean ecosystem of all time. Although many people only notice the effects on the hydrosphere, which include the oil going almost a mile deep under the sea, destroying the sediment and rock on the ocean floor, as well as disrupting coastal patterns, many have not realized the drastic effects on the biosphere because of this catastrophic event. The BP oil spill is viewed as the largest decimation of ocean wild life known to man, as well as also killing human lives in the process. Entire ecosystems have been affected in the process, harming animals like whales, dolphins, fish species, pelicans, seagulls, sea turtles, etc., several of which are already endangered. This destruction of wildlife has also lead to a slowdown in many fishing industries, further affecting human life, and causing severe poverty for those who rely on such business to survive. Even if some of the animals did survive, the trauma faced from this experience will lead to reproductive problems, or most likely, death. Even though life is returning back to the Gulf, the damage done can never be replaced, and the area will never be the same.…
BP was the ªrst of these companies to change from a reactive to a proactive…
The BP’s efforts to resolve is not actually seemed that it’s able to cover the seriousness of this accident any soon since it’s like uncountable costs would be charged to clean up the oil and restore the damage. Furthermore, some experts predict that more than 100 years will be needed to make it up. However, these days, BP is putting efforts to burn up the oil on the sea. That indicates they try to cover their fault step by step.…
News broadcasts and radio stations ran rapid on April 20th 2010 releasing emergency news. News of eleven people killed and complete destruction of the oceans from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps the largest in history, spread expeditiously. Due to cameras, leaks in the pipe buried on the ocean floor had been discovered. By the time the pipe leaks had been revealed, barrels of oil had secreted into the Gulf ruining reefs, destroying habitats, and killing animals in its path that dispersed throughout the Gulf by the wind and waves. The BP Oil Spill, also known as the Deepwater Horizon Spill, has cost billions of dollars for rejuvenating habits, purifying the water, washing animals, and cleaning up the areas…
The match that lit the fuse of the gigantic spill was a massive explosion on April 20th, 2010, on the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform that killed eleven workers. The spill had already been going on for three months, gushing crude oil into the gulf, before it was finally capped on July 15th, 2010. Even after it had been capped for forty days, the people whose environment was directly affected had not yet been notified of any type of oil spill. An article by World Book confirms how the spill was started: “The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, kills eleven workers and creates the worst environmental disaster in US history. For nearly three months, as BP struggles to cap the leaking well, about 4.9 million barrels of oil gushes into the Gulf.” (World Book 2011) This explosion directly affected at least eleven families who lost loved ones at the beginning of an enormous environmental crisis…
(NaturalNews) It's true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP?…