After the oil spill, the US government looked at the situation from a different angle, which is inclusive of cleaning the Gulf, compensation of the affected, and also the dividends of the shareholders. The issue is considered in three dimensions; positioning BP to the point of coming to terms with compensating those affected like the fishermen, small business owners, and oil workers. The United States president Barrack Obama after four trips to the Gulf’s coast analyzed the BP’s response as...
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The oil spill leaking into the Mexico gulf is as a result of the British Petroleum drilling rig which exploded at a rate of five thousand barrels a day. It was reported that about eleven workers died in the explosion that took place on 20th of April (Jones, 2010). The likely cause of the disaster was a cementing operation when the drilling by BP contractor Deepwater Horizon was at the verge of completion. The oil spill is going to affect...
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The Kalamazoo River oil spill was the worst oil spill in Michigan’s history. Well over 800,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled from an Enbridge pipeline in a creek upriver, and subsequently flowed downriver, causing devastating effects to the surrounding areas and the river’s ecosystem itself. It is clear that Enbridge dropped the ball, and that the entire situation was avoidable. The spill received a quick response from governmental agencies. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality partnered with the United...
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The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010 is described as the worst oil disaster to have ever happened in the history of the oil industry. Also known as the Macondo Blowout, the spill continued for approximately three months unabated. The root cause of the spill was a result of an explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that drilled the BP-Macondo prospect (Eagan, 2012). The explosion was caused by the mounting build-up of natural gas that had been forcing its way up...
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Do Nothing If I were Amora Srinivar, I would choose to sit back and watch as events unfold because my immediate supervisor has no confidence in me. There is nothing that can be disgusting as sharing ideas with someone who undermines your efforts. The supervisor is one of the people who view women as inferior and that’s why he does not handle this issue with the seriousness it deserves. Ignoring the issue is not the best option but it has...
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Introduction The eve of April 20th, 2010 was just like any other in the Gulf of Mexico where the various oil rigs were busy in their extraction of oil from the sea bed. This, however, was not the case with Deepwater Horizon, one of the ultra-deepwater rigs located around 50 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana, which was involved in a huge explosion that eventually resulted in the death of eleven workers and the sinking of the rig two...
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As explosion burst and oil leaked into the ocean. Billions of dollars rushed to the surface and water seemed to be on fire, but only oil burned. The uncontrollable fire burned up the derrick of Deepwater Horizon ,48 miles off the coast of Louisiana. British Productions (BP) leased Deepwater Horizon from Transocean, an oil rig company, which had the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The blowout, a large release of crude oil from the formation of oil, is more...
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Environmental impact The area where the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon rig includes 8,332 species(Biello,2010). This means that the oil spill put every one of these species at risk. The dolphin species are one of these species that have suffered dearly from the oil spill. During 2010, nearly 90 dead dolphins were reported to be found at the Gulf. This number did not decrease either as a further 200 dead dolphins were found, during January to late March of...
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Introduction Oil spillage refers to the release of hydrocarbon petroleum liquid in the environment. This is mainly a result of human activities. It is one of the greatest forms and causes of pollution. It involves crude oil spillage from tankers, platforms, wells, and drilling rigs. Spillage could also be from petroleum products that are already refined, leakages from large ships, and waste oils directed to the waters. It should be noted that oil that seeps in its natural form can...
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Crude oil (petroleum) is a highly complex mixture of organic compounds of which some 1.3 million liters enters the environment each year. Oil spills occur way to often causing a messy decontamination challenge to our environment. What is helping the ocean become cleaner and decontaminated? It’s a bacterium that is called Alcanivorax borkumensis that reacts rapidly when there is a large amount of oil in the ocean or soil. What exactly is Alcanivorax borkumensis? This is a bacterium that benefits...
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One major form of pollution that affects marine life is oil spills. Oil is extremely toxic to marine life and the harmful effects occur as soon as the oil hits the water. Oil spills are very dangerous for marine birds, mammals, fish, and shellfish. About 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled into U.S. waters from tankers and pipelines each year. According to the National Ocean Service, oil destroys the insulating ability of furbearing mammals, such as sea otters, and...
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Oil spills seemingly happen quite often in large quantities I’ve often wondered what the cause is for these happening as well as the real effects of these massive spills. When the oil is spilled in the ocean it has happened in massive amounts and small amounts but in the end, it is never good the for the life of the ocean. Some of the biggest spills were even on purpose so determining the damages these caused is important and understanding...
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Offshore drilling requires the construction of significant onshore infrastructure such as new roads, pipelines, and processing facilities, which are often built on formerly pristine beaches. Thanks in part to drilling operations, Louisiana is losing roughly 24 square miles of coastal wetlands each year, eating away at natural storm barriers and increasing the risks of storm damage, including damage from oil spills. When companies dredged canals, they dumped the soil they removed alongside, creating “spoil levees” that could rise higher than...
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What is a ‘Cartel?’ A cartel is an organization created from a formal agreement between a group of producers of a good or service to regulate supply in an effort to regulate or manipulate prices. In other words, a cartel is a collection of otherwise independent businesses or countries that act together as if they were a single producer and thus are able to fix prices for the goods they produce and the services they render without competition. A cartel...
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Today, society is experiencing, first hand, one of the most unprecedented and ongoing environmental crisis’; ocean pollution. This worldwide catastrophe is caused greatly by the production of plastic products and the need for oil or petroleum. Although these issues affect many variables, oceans are seeing the worst of it. Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean, enough to circle the Earth roughly four times. To add, in U.S. waters alone, 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled...
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Its estimated that most oil spills occur because of daily operations, mostly in oil or port terminals. However, there are still occasions where oil spills occur due to oil exploration, extraction and production or through transporting oil by sea and these vessels crashing or running aground (Fingas, 2019). These tend to have great impacts on the local marine biodiversity. An example of an oil spill that occurred due to oil extraction is the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf...
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is regarded as one of the largest environmental disasters in American history. On 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, 205.8 million gallons of oil contaminated the gulf of Mexico. A total of 11 people killed and 17 injured. According to the Center for Biological Diversity “the spill likely harmed or killed about 82,000 birds of 102 species; about 6,165 sea turtles; as many as 25,900 marine mammals.” Even though oil spills can have...
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