encountered two predicaments. The first was stopping a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an oilrig exploded. The second was persuading people that they were doing just so. The company damaged its environmentally friendly image when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010‚ eventually creating the largest marine oil spill in history. Eleven workers were killed‚ an estimated 6‚000 barrels of oil leaked per day‚ and years of irreversible damage occurred
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Crew member onboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were awoken the morning of April 20‚ 2010 to the sound of multiple explosions. The Deepwater Horizon rig was positioned in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. It was positioned about 5‚000 feet above the seabed and the oil pipe extended another 18‚000 feet into the rock below. It was owned and operated by Transocean and leased to BP. There were 127 crew men onboard the rig at the time of the explosion. The crew man began
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simple informative commercial or newscast. My main focus will be on the BP oil spill. The first sociology theory I will compare with is symbolic interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is the use of symbols or face to face interaction. The way that this relates to the BP oil spill is the way that the owner of the company‚ Kenneth R. Fineburg‚ said that he was going to help and compensate the victims of the oil spill. Commercials and speeches were made about his plans to pay back for the damage
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The Economic Impact of the BP Oil Spill In April of 2010‚ a British Petroleum operated oil drilling rig off the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Deepwater Horizon‚ exploded suddenly after high pressure methane gas from the oil well rose to the drilling rig‚ causing it to ignite and then sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. The explosion caused a sea-floor level oil blowout‚ and crude oil was leaked into the surrounding water for three months before a solution was found. After eighty-seven long days‚ the wellhead
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INTRODUCTION Due to the very nature of oil resources‚ the environment is invariably affected. The first way in which the environment is affected by the oil industry is through both the drilling and the transportation processes. The chemicals used in the drilling can be harmful to the environment‚ drilling itself poses a great danger‚ for instance in case of an oil spill (as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill showed)‚ and as the Exxon Valdez disaster so evidently portrayed‚ transportation can be equally
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BP OIL SPILL The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout)[5][6][7][8] is a massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.[9] Some estimates placed it by late May or early June‚ 2010‚ as among the largest oil spills in history with hundreds of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor oil gusher that resulted from the
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The BP oil spill‚ more famously referred to as the Deepwater Horizon Spill‚ occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and flowed unmitigated for as long as 3 months. The BP oil spill has fared as the largest marine oil spill ever confronted in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill on the 20th of April 2010 was primarily the result of a gas release followed by an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ in the Gulf of Mexico‚ established on the Mocando exploration well designed for
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Damage April 20‚ 2010 began as a day of celebration‚ a day that marked 7 years without injury on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ and ended with 11 people dead‚ 78 days of oil flow‚ and 1‚074 miles of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated. Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill the beaches may appear clean but we have yet to see the final effects. BP‚ the company behind this tragedy‚ is still trying to clean up the mess they have created. This is a lot more complicated
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11‚ 2006‚ MT Solar I sank in the waters off Guimaras Island and dumped into the sea an estimated half of the 2.19 million liters of industrial fuel oil it was carrying. Since then‚ the Philippine Coast Guard has sprayed 115‚600 liters of chemical dispersants to contain the damage. But‚ the big question is this. What is the best way to clean up the oil slick? According to the PCG‚ the best way to do it is through the use of chemical dispersants. However‚ my opinion is different. I believe that the
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Ethics in the Workplace Case Study: BP Oil Spill On April 20‚ 2010 off the Gulf of Mexico‚ there was a blowout of the Macondo well which is owned by British Petroleum also known as BP. When the blowout took place it got immediate media attention because aspects of the event were known over the world. Within events transpiring it was discovered how limited the resources and reaction to the disaster was going to be. This paper will detail aspects of the event from symptoms of the problem‚ the root
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