The BP oil spill‚ more famously referred to as the Deepwater Horizon Spill‚ occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and flowed unmitigated for as long as 3 months. The BP oil spill has fared as the largest marine oil spill ever confronted in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill on the 20th of April 2010 was primarily the result of a gas release followed by an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ in the Gulf of Mexico‚ established on the Mocando exploration well designed for
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a big deal. These past months people have been protesting and debating on whether to let the pipeline be built or not. What is the Dakota Access Pipeline? The Dakota Pipeline is a new underground pipeline that is made by the Dakota Access‚ LLC. The Dakota Pipeline conveys 470000 barrels of oil per day. This pipeline goes through Bakken/ Three Forks Formation North Dakota near Patoka. The Dakota Access ‚ LLC claims that the project will create up to 40 permanent jobs
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A. INTRODUCTION: BP is one of the world’s driving global oil and gas organizations‚ with around 80‚000 employees and operations in more than 80 nations on six continents. The organization’s primary exercises are oil and gas investigation and creation‚ petroleum‚ lubricants‚ supply and transportation. BP gives its clients with fuel to transportation‚ energy for heat and light‚ retail administrations and petrochemicals items. • Founder: William Knox D’Arcy • Incorporated: 1908 as Anglo-Persian Oil
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2.2 BP Solar BP has responded through its thin film photovoltaic cells designed to reduce manufacturing costs towards a level at which solar energy will become economically competitive compared with other energy sources. As BP’s Energy Commission chairman stated: "Our goal is to eliminate the ’Catch 22’ faced by producers of renewable technologies…without the promise of volume sales‚ there is little incentive for a company to make the investments that could bring down costs and make these products
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the background. Then‚ suddenly they hear the words breaking news and now decide to tune into what the dull lady is revealing. She announces that an oil spill has erupted in the Gulf of Mexico and the company “BP” is smothered all over the screen. The child only can only understand one concept: BP was the sole cause of this oil spill. To clarify‚ the child did not learn the real causes for this catastrophic disaster. On April 20‚ 2010‚ the oil rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ causing 3.19 million
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and highways. A current issue for my township is the PennEast Pipeline. The PennEast Pipeline is a 118-mile underground pipeline that will stretch from Luzerne County‚ Pa.‚ to Mercer County‚ N.J.‚ is proposed to go through Upper Nazareth. This pipeline is expected to affect six miles of township roads in my community and neighboring communities. My local community will be voting on whether or not to allow the creation of this pipeline. I chose this issue because it will have a major impact on the
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Opportunities and Threats from a SWOT Analysis for The BP Helios Initiative. From the SWOT analysis for BP Helios Initiative--Looking forward globally to the next three years; the opportunities and threats components show very important points that can be very decisive for either the success or the failure of this initiative. The fact that BP was the first of the companies in the oil and gas industry to make it clear about going green is a very important point; As we know that consumers are now
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Elements of Safety Management & System Subhadip Manna 1. What are the Regulatory Agencies/Authorities having control over petroleum Industry? • • • • • • • • • • • • Following is the list of various regulatory/statutory agencies having jurisdiction over the petroleum industry. Central Pollution Control Board ( CPCB)‚ under the Minist ry of Environment and Forest Respective State Pollution Control Board‚ under the Ministry of Environment and Forest of The State Chief Inspector
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Topic Total Productive Maintenance. TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE INTRODUCTION: We expect our machines to work without failures‚ produce high quality output‚ at the same time consume very less manpower‚ raw materials‚ electrical energy‚ tools/ consumables etc‚ but this is highly difficult to realize in practice unless they approach is towards identifying the losses and eliminating them. Total productive maintenance‚ shortly termed as TPM‚ provides means to achieve and maintain high levels
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Already‚ there is a Keystone Pipeline in existence‚ which runs from fields of oil sand starting in Canada to the U.S. The Keystone XL Pipeline 2‚000 long would be an expansion of this‚ causing somewhat of an economic issue regarding employment and that would only be the beginning of many issues. TransCanada is the company that has been striving for this project to begin; A connection to Cushing‚ Oklahoma where there is currently an oil jam to the Gulf Coast of Texas‚ where the destination of oil
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