exploring alternative energy sources is too expensive and that we can just continue to drill where we are currently and explore other areas that we have not been to such as Alaska. Every so many years we seem to have an oil disaster like the Deepwater Horizon or the recent disaster in the Louisiana Gulf Coast. It has been shown and proven that companies such as British Petroleum operate unsafely and don’t care about our environment. If we keep drilling for oil and keep having accidents nobody can
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has been involved in a number of accidents over recent years‚ including the infamous Texas City refinery explosion‚ Alaska oil spills and recently‚ the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. All of them caused human casualties and serious pollution to the environment. The most recent and controversial accident is the Deepwater Horizon explosion‚ which caused the world’s largest oil spill. The oil spill covered 580 square miles (1‚500 km2) and was only 31 miles (50 km) from the ecologically
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Paper Summary In “BP’s Failure to Debias: Underscoring the Importance of Behavioral Corporate Finance”‚ Shefrin argues that the explosion of Deepwater Horizon is not an accident for BP; overconfidence‚ excessive optimism and other weaknesses in BP’s culture will make this crisis happen sooner or later. Therefore‚ psychological pitfalls are the root cause of this BP crisis. Moreover‚ he suggests that cognitive repairs should be added into firm’s decision processes
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soil so that is why the pipeline is not buried underground. The pipeline had to be built on stilts to allow the caribou to pass underneath. A Particularly Bad Oil Spill The oil spill was the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that happened on 20th April 2010. The spill happened because the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded. The rig was drilling in about 5‚000ft of water‚ pushing the Technologies to the limit. Oil had affected the sea and the beach at the Gulf of Mexico. Over 8‚000 birds‚ sea turtles
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(NaturalNews) It’s true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years 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
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Incident : The Deep Water Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill • The Solution : The Leadership of Methods of James Burke The Organization : British Petroleum History Founded by William D’Arcy in 1901 First oil discovery - Persia 1908 Creation of Castrol brand during world war two Began the first offshore operation in the English Channel in 1970 First oil flowing from Alaska Pipeline in 1977 Formation of BP America from Sohio in 1987 Deep water Horizon environmental disaster
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Lessons from the Past The recent major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico‚ from BP’s Deepwater Horizon‚ has brought the use and effectiveness of bioremediation back into the news. Recruiting bacteria and other microbes to break down synthetic waste is an immensely appealing idea. Putting microorganisms to work in this manner is the crux of bioremediation (Alcamo‚ Weeks‚ 2008). The work to clean up the Horizon spill actually started in the 1800’s when night-soil men would go from house to house and
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in 2000 to Reading and Bates Falcon RBS-8D design specifications. The dynamically positioned semisubmersible was also referred to as a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit or MODU. Water-rated to 10‚000 feet and well-depth rated to 30‚000 feet‚ the Deepwater Horizon was not surpassing its capacity in 2010 when it was drilling at water depth of only 5‚000 feet and a well depth that never reached 20‚000
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"Those gulls think they’re getting a free meal when really they’re getting a load of toxins." Schweiger‚ who heads the nation’s largest conservation group‚ led reporters on a six-hour boat tour to survey ecological damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak‚ which has been spewing an estimated 210‚000 gallons of sweet crude per day into the Gulf of Mexico since the drilling rig exploded April 20. A 100-mile round trip from Venice to the Chandeleur Islands revealed no oil on the shorelines
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oil pollution incident was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This massive oil spill flowed for almost three months after the explosion and sinking of the rig in April 2010. The oil slick was so large satellites could see the spread of oil. This water pollution catastrophe caused an extreme rise in death rates in the marine‚ bird‚ and wetland species. The beaches‚ estuaries‚ and wetlands were covered with a thick oily material. The Deepwater Horizon spill is considered the worst
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