Environmental Law; BP &Deepwater Drilling BP P.L.C. is a company that has been in the energy business for more than a century. This corporation has been improving its operations in different parts of the world thanks to its constant research‚ and it has become a world leader as an oil and gas producer. Also‚ it is one of the pioneers in deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico‚ and it is the largest lease holder in the United States with more than 650 lease blocks in waters greater than 1‚250 feet
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The Ocean Ranger The Ocean Ranger was an offshore exploration oil drilling platform that sank in Canadian waters 315 kilometres southeast from St. John’s Newfoundland‚ on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on February 15‚ 1982‚ with 84 crewmembers onboard. The Ocean Ranger was the largest semi-submersible‚ offshore exploration‚ oil drilling platform of the day. Built in 1976 by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries‚ it operated off the coasts of Alaska‚ New Jersey‚ Ireland‚ and in November 1980 moved
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The network diagram is a logically schematic display provides graphical view for the project details like the tasks required to be performed‚ the relations between them and the duration’s estimations for the task itself and for the entire project including the earliest time to beginning the work in a every task the earliest predicted finishing date of the project. Network diagrams used for detailed planning‚ analyzing scheduling in project implementation and as a control tool in the monitoring and
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contractor Hindustan Construction Company Ltd is using four Sandvik DT 820 underground drill rigs to construct the country’s first underground crude oil storage cavern‚ at Vizag in southern India. Four Sandvik DT 820 underground jumbo drill rigs are being used for the construction of India ’s first underground crude oil storage cavern‚ located at Visakhapatnam in southern India‚ with two Sandvik DX 700 surface drill rigs also being used benching work in the same site. The cavern is being constructed
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owned by the government. Bureau of land Management is in charge of issuing permits for drilling‚ and some people think that they are catering to particular political groups. Stakeholders are not taking into account that industrial and urban sprawl are unavoidable and that land and environments are becoming extinct. Thousands of animals use this valley as a migration route. By allowing the development of more drilling sites‚ the migration route will become compromised. Already there are roads and fences
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or bad service. It can be argued that individuals have the rights to make reasonable claims on society or other individuals. 2.0 CASE STUDY On April 20‚ 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field‚ during the final phases of drilling the exploratory well at Macondo‚ experienced an explosion and sank 50 miles off the
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Change-in-Practice Foundation Executive Summary: Barnett Shale activity has vastly declined since its peak in 2008. “The decline in Barnett Shale drilling can be attributed to several factors. The industry has rushed to shift resources to areas that produce crude oil‚ like the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas‚ which sells for higher prices than gas. And other shale gas fields like the booming Marcellus Shale have surpassed the Barnett in daily production‚ further
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as well and the concern for those working with oil welling rises. Oil well blowouts occur when there is an imbalance in pressure‚ whether that be from underneath the ground with an occurrence of shifting pressures or above the ground caused by drilling pressure. When this balance of pressure occurs‚ fluids reach the surface and flow out like a geyser. When this does happen‚ oil riggers
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DRILL OR NO DRILL?! Report By United States Head Editor Introduction This report is about whether people should stop drilling for oil in the Alaskan Tundra or if they should carry on drilling in it. History of the Alaskan Oil Industry Prudhoe Bay is frozen for most of the year so transporting oil by ship is impossible. Following the discovery of the Alaskan Prudhoe Bay oil field in 1968‚ pipeline designers faced the challenge of building a pipeline to carry 1.6 million barrels
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Mexico‚ USA. Deepwater Horizon is owned and operated by British Petroleum (BP). The spill was caused by an oil gusher on the ocean floor. The Deepwater Horizon rig started drilling a well at a water depth of 5‚000ft in MC block 252 when it caught fire in April 2010. Deepwater Horizon is a fifth-generation deepwater rig owned by Transocean and leased by BP. It was characterized as the largest accidental
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