was intended to shut off the flow of high-pressure oil and gas from the well‚ but failed to seal the well because the drill pipe buckled for reasons that are still unknown. The crew could have redirected the flow of the mud and gas away from Deepwater Horizon and into the gulf‚ but instead they directed it to a separator device that was designed to separate gas from a mudflow similar to what was happening but in much smaller quantities. The separator got overwhelmed and flammable gas began to flood
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Strategic Marketing DEEPWATER HORIZON INCIDENT WORD COUNT: 6000 Executive Summary On April 20th 2010 bp had a major oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico coined the “Deepwater Horizon Incident” in which eleven (11) person’s loss their lives. This incident negatively affected the company’s brand and bp brand equity plummeted by $7.4bn‚ representing a 61% fall (Brand Finance 2010). BPTT which is a subsidiary of bp Global had to treat with the negative impact of this crisis
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Chris Cormier 5-2-12 FINC 3330.01 Corporate Journal [pic] Anadarko’s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by developing‚ acquiring and exploring for oil and natural gas resources vital to the world’s health and welfare. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies‚ with approximately 2.3billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of proved reserves
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Deepwater Horizon Assignment On April 20th 2010 a BP licenses oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded‚ killing 11 people. For three months millions of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico killing sea life‚ altering the eco-system and affecting towns situated around the Gulf’s livelihood and quality of life. The Deepwater Horizon rig is responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in history. The corporation lost billions of dollars due to the disaster stemming for systematic
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BP‚ Halliburton‚ and Transocean were all involved. “Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry‚” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations‚ they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP
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Homeland Security Integrative Project Leone‚ Tom-James June 11‚ 2013 Abstract Having well-developed protocols on issues of security‚ as well as utilizing such well-developed protocols as part of a strategy in attending to security issues‚ and periodically reviewing such utilized security protocols as time passes-by in order to increase efficiency is the most enduring way to keep enriching the practices of ‚ and in strengthening US homeland security. Due to lack of a single security
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hurricane or any other natural disaster‚ it was an oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana. The rig exploded‚ claiming eleven lives and acting as a catalyst for the largest oil spill in history. This catastrophes fault was laid upon BP‚ or British Petroleum‚ who owned the oil rig but the fault also lies upon government regulators‚ inspectors and engineers‚ all the oversights and errors‚ both small and large. In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill‚ five million barrels of oil were released
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oil and gas industry now faces its strongest set of challenges in terms of risk and compliance regulations. Recent events such as the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have further brought to light the presence and relevance of such regulations. In this whitepaper‚ we will consider
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BSC 1020 – Homework Unit B The Molecules of Life This homework is worth 25 points of the 900 points available in the course. Please use the book‚ PPT lecture handouts‚ and internet to answer the following six questions: Question 1 (8 points) Mr. Tony‚ a biology teacher‚ gives his student Ziad four samples and tells him they are lysine (an amino acid)‚ lactose (a disaccharide)‚ insulin (a protein hormone)‚ and RNA. The samples are in test tubes marked 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ and 4‚ but Ziad is
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industry face many risks ranging from political risks to supply and demand risks. However‚ oil companies involved in offshore drilling are subject to even more risks. There is no way of avoiding these risks‚ therefore these companies must address them in hopes of minimizing the effects related to a mishap resulting from one of these risks. The process of offshore drilling starts with verifying the exact location of oil reserves. Solid petroleum deposits often take the form of oil shale or tar sands
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