The BP Oil Disaster
BP is one in six of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. BP stands for British Petroleum, but that was not the first name of the gas and oil company, it all started in 1908. Explore George Reynold’s went on a mission to find oil in Persia and he did not fail. The mission was actually for a man by the name of William D’Arcy. This oil that was found became part of BP’s first company name the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, but that’s not what everyone thinks or knows about when someone says BP. What people actually think when someone mentions the name, they automatically think of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Monday October 5th the United States Department of Justice have finally settled with BP to resolve the oil spill. Loren Grush, a …show more content…
BP, Halliburton, and Transocean were all involved. “Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry,” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations, they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP and Transocean have taken responsibility for their actions, but Halliburton has denied any responsibility for this …show more content…
Many of the sea creatures for example, shrimp, oysters, and crabs, are hard to find. a One of the fisherman named Darren Stander who lives about eighty miles away from where the oil spill happened said, "My fellow fishermen who fish crab and who fish fish, they're feeling the same thing. You get a spike in production every now and then, but overall, it's off. Everybody's down. Everywhere there was dispersed oil and heavily oiled, the production is down." Productions have went down fifty percent ever sense the spill happened. The fishermen have lost their jobs due to the rise in fuels and the decrease in fish. Eventually things will change and over time the fish industry will go back to normal, but at this moment someone lost their job because there isn’t enough fish to catch and make a
Monday October 5th the United States Department of Justice have finally settled with BP to resolve the oil spill. Loren Grush, a …show more content…
BP, Halliburton, and Transocean were all involved. “Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry,” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations, they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP and Transocean have taken responsibility for their actions, but Halliburton has denied any responsibility for this …show more content…
Many of the sea creatures for example, shrimp, oysters, and crabs, are hard to find. a One of the fisherman named Darren Stander who lives about eighty miles away from where the oil spill happened said, "My fellow fishermen who fish crab and who fish fish, they're feeling the same thing. You get a spike in production every now and then, but overall, it's off. Everybody's down. Everywhere there was dispersed oil and heavily oiled, the production is down." Productions have went down fifty percent ever sense the spill happened. The fishermen have lost their jobs due to the rise in fuels and the decrease in fish. Eventually things will change and over time the fish industry will go back to normal, but at this moment someone lost their job because there isn’t enough fish to catch and make a