CAUSE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL ENEE 501 – POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL FOR THE ENERGY INDUSTRY HARJOT BHANDAL 10106493 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 3 BACKGROUND 3 ANALYSIS 5 CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION 5 ENVORNMENTAL EFFECTS 6 ECONOMIC EFFECT 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCES 9 ABSTRACT On the 20th of April 2010‚ a tragic event occurred just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Damage April 20‚ 2010 began as a day of celebration‚ a day that marked 7 years without injury on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ and ended with 11 people dead‚ 78 days of oil flow‚ and 1‚074 miles of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated. Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill the beaches may appear clean but we have yet to see the final effects. BP‚ the company behind this tragedy‚ is still trying to clean up the mess they have created. This is a lot more complicated
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INTRODUCTION Due to the very nature of oil resources‚ the environment is invariably affected. The first way in which the environment is affected by the oil industry is through both the drilling and the transportation processes. The chemicals used in the drilling can be harmful to the environment‚ drilling itself poses a great danger‚ for instance in case of an oil spill (as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill showed)‚ and as the Exxon Valdez disaster so evidently portrayed‚ transportation can be equally
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Crew member onboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were awoken the morning of April 20‚ 2010 to the sound of multiple explosions. The Deepwater Horizon rig was positioned in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. It was positioned about 5‚000 feet above the seabed and the oil pipe extended another 18‚000 feet into the rock below. It was owned and operated by Transocean and leased to BP. There were 127 crew men onboard the rig at the time of the explosion. The crew man began
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largest oil spill to date. However‚ the oil spill did not only affect the gulf. Animals‚ humans‚ ecosystems‚ and biodiversity were all impacted as a result. This act‚ inflicted as a war strategy by the Iraqi’s‚ is the cause of mass deterrence to the environment in the area. Although tremendous progress has been made in an effort to clean the Gulf War oil spill‚ there are still several efforts that must be made in order to maximize the fixation. In this paper‚ there are several aspects of the spill to
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Cover Page Introduction ………………………………………………….pg 2 The Exxon Valdez oil spill……………………………………pg 2 Short term effects……………………………………………pg 3 Long term effects……………………………………………pg 3 Canges after the spill………………………………………..pg 4 Legal settlement……………………………………………..pg 4 Reference…………………………………………………….pg 4 Introduction On March 24‚ 1989‚ the tanker Exxon Valdez‚ en route from Valdez‚ Alaska to Los Angeles‚ California‚ ran aground
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Oil spills and the impacts on the ecosystem Discuss the short and long term effects of your chosen impacts on a specific ecosystem. Your response needs to include: -a definition of the impact - How the impact arises (Causes) - the effects on the living AND non living components (think about all the spheres) - Methods to reduce the impacts An oil spill is a release of oil into a body of water‚ often stored in a tanker‚ offshore drilling rig or an underwater pipeline. An oil spill often
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WHAT IS AN OIL SPILL? An oil spill is the discharge of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment‚ especially marine areas‚ due to human activities‚ and is one form of pollution. An oil spill occurs when a vehicle‚ vessel‚ pipeline or drilling rig releases petroleum products into the environment uncontrollably. The first major oil spill on record happened when the Thomas W. Lawson schooner became beached in the Isles of Scilly in 1907‚ spilling 58‚000 barrels of paraffin oil into the
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Pennsylvania the first oil well was drilled (Congressional Digest 2010). The thirty-eight years following that first onshore oil well would be dedicated to searching for offshore oil resources (Congressional Digest 2010). By 1896 those who searched accomplished what they set out to do off of Summerland‚ California (Congressional Digest 2010). During 1910‚ oil was an invaluable source of energy in America (Congressional Digest 2010). The people of America came up with ways to access and gain oil quicker than
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Elizalde Exam Essay 1 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. This spill had a catastrophic on the environment causing extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats as well as killing 11 workers and injuring 17 others. This spill is the “worst environmental disaster the US has faced”‚ according to White House energy adviser Carol Browner. Why did this occur? The staff of the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore
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