BP is one in six of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. BP stands for British Petroleum‚ but that was not the first name of the gas and oil company‚ it all started in 1908. Explore George Reynold’s went on a mission to find oil in Persia and he did not fail. The mission was actually for a man by the name of William D’Arcy. This oil that was found became part of BP’s first company name the Anglo-Persian Oil Company‚ but that’s not what everyone thinks or knows about when someone says BP
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The Ecological Effect of the BP Oil Spill on the Environment Introduction: The BP oil spill‚ (also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill the BP oil disaster‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ and the Macondo blowout) was an oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP owned and operated Macondo Prospect on April 20‚ 2010. This oil spill is considered the largest and most devastating oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The cause of this oil spill according
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Explosion of Field – Dr. Phil and Oprah – O. J. Simpson and Prosecutor Marcia Clark • Predict what a jury will do from the demographic characteristics of jurors. • Predict what a jury will do from the individual characteristics--personalities--of the jurors. Does SJS Work? • Can consultants predict what a certain type of juror is likely to do? • Demographic Characteristics – Race? – Gender? – Politics? – Religion? – Education? – Age? Can consultants predict what a certain juror demographic
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that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP? Turns out‚ according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) in Mexico‚ the two million gallons of the dispersant Corexit which the EPA dictated had to be used to supposedly clean up
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The Spindletop in Texas is a historic event that changed the oil industry forever. January 10‚ 1901 was the day of an enormous explosion of oil that reached a height of more than 150 feet and produced 100‚000 barrels a day. A gusher of this magnitude was unheard of since it was way more powerful than anything else in the world. This caused a booming oil industry that grew to record highs and many of the oil companies in America such as Gulf Oil‚ Texaco‚ and Exxon. The Spindletop is a place where
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Three factors that influence BP oil companies operational and contingency planning include‚ unexpected oil spills. Sometimes the company may experience unexpected oil spill that will require them to change from the original plan. The second factor is natural calamities. Sometimes they cannot control things like floods‚ which can cause oil burst and affect the flow of the plan. The third factor is Man-Made calamity. These affect the plan of the company because they need to address it immediately.
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new things and also makes some mistakes. This journey of Siddhartha could be connected to the Eightfold Path. The class was given the task to visually represent the Eightfold Path in Siddhartha’s journey. To complete this task‚ we made a explosion box. The explosion box is the box that opens into a flat surface when you open the lid. We decided to make this because we thought it would be a creative and unique way of visual representation. When you open the box‚ there is one more smaller box inside
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The Deep Horizon oil rig explosion was categorically impacted by bias decision making. The leaders that day executed from a heuristic view‚ and also from an overconfidence bias. The two corporations colliding that day‚ BP and Transocean‚ underestimated the calamity occurring right before them. Twenty anomalies occurring simultaneously did not cause significant alarm to make a drastic and immediate decision to prevent the explosion. The team minimized the probability that the rig would explode
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INTRODUCTION: For the European developed countries like Spain and Italy‚ where the population is decreasing‚ this might be considered as a boon. However‚ for the developing countries like India‚ population explosion is a curse and is damaging to the development of the country and it’s society. The developing countries already facing a lack in their resources‚ and with the rapidly increasing population‚ the resources available per person are reduced further‚ leading to increased poverty‚ malnutrition
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America has seen many disasters. Pearl Harbor is one of the disasters that affected America in many ways. The Challenger explosion affected America in a similar way. January 28‚ 1986‚ one of America’s greatest space shuttles‚ exploded in front of a live audience (Challenger disaster history.com pg.1). The Challenger launch was one of the most publicized launches because it was the first time a teacher was going into space. The launch was being broadcast across the nation live from Kennedy Space Center
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