BP: The Oil and Energy Company BP is an oil company whose roots start back in Cleveland‚ Ohio in the 1870 ’s. BP has grown from a local oil company to now being a global energy group employing over 80‚000 people and operating in over 100 countries worldwide. BP provides fuel for transportation‚ energy for heat and light‚ retail services‚ and petrochemical products for everyday items. They are all about finding oil and natural gas and have several brands that might sound familiar: BP‚ Castrol
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On 24 March 1989‚ an oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Prince Willian Sound’s Bligh Reef‚ which is a habitat for salmon‚ sea otters and various marine animals. Over 40000 barrels of crude oil were spilled over the next few days and eventually covered 1300 miles of coastline and more than 10000 square miles of ocean. It was considered to be one of the most disastrous human-caused environmental accidents. According to official information‚ this environmental disaster was caused by various human-mistakes
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Oil is one of the most important resources that empower the economy. It is mainly used for transportation‚ cooking‚ heating‚ and also electricity generation. Without oil‚ transportation‚ manufacturing‚ and production of food may not be possible. Oil came from fossils and dead organisms that submerged to the bottom of the ocean‚ or what we so called Oil Wells. It was collected by oil rigs by digging the bottom surface of the ocean. Deepwater Horizon oil spill is one of the biggest and controversial
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Petroleum “BP” Oil Spill On April 20th 2010‚ British Petroleum better known as BP had an extremely destructive impact on the environment and the livelihood of those in Gulf Coast area of Louisiana‚ Mississippi and Florida. BP’s Deep-water Horizon oil rig was located offshore‚ 52 miles off the southeast coast of Venice‚ Louisiana. An explosion on the Deep-water Horizon oil rig caused a massive fire that claimed the lives of eleven BP workers. After 36 hours of burning‚ the Deep-water Horizon oil rig sunk
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IMPACT OF OIL SPILLAGE ON RURAL AREAS IN NIGERIA SUBMITTED TO COVENTRY UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS BY NWANNA ONYINYECHI RUTH STUDENT ID; 5423377 INTRODUCTION Oil spillage is the introduction of chemical hydrocarbon into the ecosystem. Such as lands‚ water systems‚ forest etc. which serves as a habitat for humans‚ mammals‚ birds‚ fishes etc. Though the oil production
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The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well‚ were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206‚ held in New Orleans. June 22 – Mark E. Hafle‚ a senior drilling engineer from BP‚ warns that the metal casing for the blowout preventer might collapse under high pressure Deepwater Horizon drilling rig company‚ owned by Transocean‚ begins drilling on the Macondo Prospect. The planned well was to be drilled to 18‚000 feet below sea level‚ and was to be plugged
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MARINE OIL POLLUTION-concept map PTT Global Chemical PLC. PTT Global Chemical PLC. POLLUTER POLLUTER MARINE OIL POLLUTION MARINE OIL POLLUTION Crude oil around 50‚000 liters (420 barrels) spilled into the sea from a pipeline unloading an oil tanker around 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Rayong province at Ao Prao‚ Samet (Thailand). Crude oil around 50‚000 liters (420 barrels) spilled into the sea from a pipeline unloading an oil tanker around 20 kilometers (12 miles) off
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BP Gulf Oil Spill 1 Running Head: BP GULF OIL SPILL The Legal Issues and Ethical Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 Terry D. Bollman Park University BP Gulf Oil Spill 2 British Petroleum’s Roll in the Gulf Oil Spill This paper will explain some of the effects of three legal issues and three ethical issues surrounding the London-based British Petroleum Company’s involvement in the explosion of the offshore oil
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Oil/ Petrol Research Project In the modern world we use oil every second of the day‚ whether we realise it or not. We use oil to fuel our cars‚ our public transports‚ etc. Without oil our daily lives would be the same. Oil is a natural resource that comes from beneath the earth’s crust; it is trapped in pockets under the earth. Finding oil trapped underground is very complicated and costly‚ it takes millions of dollars to drill a well and only a few are successful. Oil travels upwards from the
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AP Environmental Science Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The BP Disaster The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most infamous industrial environmental disasters ever. On April 20‚ 2010‚ a marine oil-drilling dig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion resulted in the loss of human life‚ massive environmental damage‚ and widespread damage to the livelihood of people living along the
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