The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The largest marine oil spill in United States history began on April 20‚ 2010‚ with an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the water over the next 87 days‚ much of which washed up on shore along the Gulf coast region of the United States and Mexico. The accident was the result of numerous shortcuts undertaken by BP‚ and resulted in both environmental destruction and legal action. The events
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Petroleum Gulf Of Mexico 2010 Biggest Oil Spill in History Jennifer Fuenzalida Jorge Luis Torres Ignacio Muñoz Santiago Duque AGENDA Brief Facts About the Biggest Oil Spill in History BP’ s Communication Strategy Result of BP’s Communication Strategy How Should this Crisis Have Been Managed? Timeline BP History of Disasters 1908 UK: British Petroleum‚ is an energy company‚ dedicated to the production of oil and natural gas. April 6 Texas City: Explosion in Texas City & a spill of 244 tons
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Managing in a Complex World MBM500: Semester 1‚ 2013 Author: Daniel Smith – 5549426 Title: The Analysis of BP and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster of 2010 Due Date: 5/5/13 Word Allocation: 2193 excluding executive summary‚ headings‚ tables‚ references and appendices Executive Summary This report provides an examination into British Petroleum (BP) and the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. It looks specifically at the functional
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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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Module Name: Oil & Gas Management Module Code: POG210 Module Leader: James Milne Student Full Name: Desmond Guy Harvest Student ID: 31661 Resit Assignment Essay Abstract: The intention of this Essay is to examine about sufficient understanding BP‚ which is one of the biggest well known since 1908. However the saddest oil spill disaster has taken way the life of 11 BP Employees‚ but it also made an impact in the environment such as ecosystem‚ the ocean’s suffer from oil covering bodies‚ and
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Effects of Oil Spills & Fluctuating Gas Prices in the United States of America Strayer University Spring Semester 2010 “Every area in the country is subject to some kind of disaster - flood‚ hurricane‚ earthquake‚ to name a few. Even man-made disasters - oil spill‚ civil unrest‚ fire - can devastate the surrounding neighborhood and economy. Even though an area has never been damaged before‚ there is no guarantee that it will not happen tomorrow.” ~Carol Chastang Oil spills not only affect
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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 drilling
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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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Air and Water Pollution: The Gulf Oil Spill Stephanie Wolf University of Phoenix ENV/100 Principles of Environmental Science Cyraj El-Bakoush On April 20‚ 2010‚ BP’s oil rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico‚ killing 11 people and unleashing more than 200 million gallons of oil into the water (Sakashita‚ N.D.). The spill oiled more than 1‚000 miles of shoreline and a study from the Center for Biological
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Annual Report Project Did BP responded adequately and efficiently after the Oil Spill in April 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction p. 1 BP Oil spill characteristics p. 2 Cost Analysis of the spill p. 6 Clean-up of oil spill and recover environment p. 6 Estimation and recognition of the cost………………………………………………..p. 6 Financial highlights…………………………………………………………………….p. 7 1. Sale of Assets/ Opportunity Cost 2. Share Price Drop
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