The National Commission on the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report in January 2011 to the President of the United States indicating that the April 20th‚ 2011 Deep Water Horizon’s explosion and the resulting oil spill at the Macondo well was a foreseeable and preventable disaster. The Commission’s report indicated that a number of easily identifiable mistakes by British Petroleum‚ Transocean‚ and Halliburton ultimately led to the devastating oil spill which lasted
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Transocean Ltd. Transocean Ltd. reported its third quarter results on 4th November. From the numbers mentioned in the press release itself we can realise that Transocean has got good hold of the situation. For the 3 months ended 30th September‚ the company reported revenues of $ 1.61 billion‚ down $ 276 million from that for the second quarter of the current year. Lower fleet utilization and a decline in other revenues related to contract termination fees recognized in the second quarter are the
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(Level 1‚ 2 and 3)‚ Schlumberger (Sugar Land‚ USA) Feb. 2012-Date Description: In this position I redesigned‚ optimized‚ evaluated and developed parts and tools used in real-time well-logging system drilling applications. Main Activities Managed a team of 2 designers to develop new parts and assemblies for field use‚ from concept generation and CAD design to testing‚ simulation and deployment. Worked with manufacturing‚ procurement and supply chain
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need strong protection against all these potential perils‚ and to be able to comfortably work in their protective apparel for their entire shift. These according to (McCarter‚ 2014) all workers in the oil and gas industry who operate on or near oil rig to wear and be equipped with flowing at all time: • Fame-resistant clothing • steel-tone boots • hard hats • safety glasses CONCLUSION What we learnt from the tragedy disaster‚ there remains a huge focus on ensuring engineers recognise the need
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comprised of dependent humans that rely heavily on the manufacture and use of fossil fuels. Without these precious materials many functions of everyday life would cease to exist. And with the abundance of fossil fuels depleting by the second due to drilling‚ mining‚ and extracting‚ the world is slowly slipping into a hole it might not be able to get out of. If the pursuit of energy continues in the direction it is going‚ more and more problems will arise and inhibit the everyday lives of society while
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parts and machinery is much easier than moving such a large jet airliner. Explanation The use of fixed position layout becomes indispensible in the situations where other types of layouts are inappropriate. For instance‚ in the construction of oil rigs‚ the functional layout would not be appropriate layout where different parts of the product are manufactured in different departments‚ then shifted and compiled in another department (Miltenburg‚ 2005). On the other hand in fixed position layout‚ all
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BG Group fast facts: * BG Group holds capacity at regasification terminals on both sides of the Atlantic * We have rights to existing US import capacity in Lake Charles‚ Louisiana and Elba Island‚ Georgia. * BG Group has been the largest supplier of LNG to the world’s largest gas market - the US - for the last five years * BG Group is the largest international oil company operator of LNG ships * BG Group has supplied 22 of the 22 LNG importing countries and sourced LNG from
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1.0 INTRODUCTION As the oil and gas industry expands throughout the world‚ the health‚ safety and environmental aspects of the industry face emerging governments and changing cultures. Within these varying landscapes‚ the industry often becomes engulfed in societies with varying levels of participation and support of the occupational health‚ safety and environmental spectrum. Within each country‚ oil and gas companies must consider the people‚ their cultures‚ beliefs and language‚ all without
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Figure 1: Geographical location map. The complex hosts more than half of the platinum (Pt)‚ chromium (Cr)‚ vanadium (V) and refractory minerals in the world. Platinum is an unreactive‚ precious metal which is gray-white in colour. Whereas‚ Chromium is a hard metal which is used in stainless steel as well as other alloys and is white in colour Bauba’s head office is situated in Johannesburg in South Africa. The main business functions of Bauba is the exploration‚ expansion and assessment of the Bauba
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risks that Apache faces. Price Volatility Risk: * When the price of oil decrease cause production shifts away from the US‚ due to the high cost of producing oil.. * Apache had 80% of its proved reserves in the US. Within the US‚ deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico had
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