Kathy Giovinazzo February 12‚ 2011 April 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon well exploded‚ sending oil gushing for three months into the gulf. The explosion killed eleven crewmembers and is probably the greatest environmental disaster the United States has faced. Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1‚470‚000 U.S. gallons per day. On July 15‚ 2010 BP successfully stopped the flow of oil from the wellhead‚ after spilling 190 million
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Semester 1‚ 2013 Author: Daniel Smith – 5549426 Title: The Analysis of BP and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster of 2010 Due Date: 5/5/13 Word Allocation: 2193 excluding executive summary‚ headings‚ tables‚ references and appendices Executive Summary This report provides an examination into British Petroleum (BP) and the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. It looks specifically at the functional area of organizing from POLC and the
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In the article‚ “The Immortal Horizon‚” published in the May‚ 2011 issue of Believer Magazine‚ the author‚ Leslie Jamison‚ shares her experiences and adventures with some abstract‚ although very persistent; characters as she spectates a marathon in Tennessee known as “The Barkley Marathons.” On June 10‚ 1977‚ James Earl Ray attempted to escape from the Bushy Mountain State Penitentiary‚ but was apprehended fifty-four hours later after only traversing eight miles. After hearing this‚ a man known as
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explosions occurred within the oil rig giant‚ Deepwater Horizon‚ an immense offshore drilling platform‚ located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast (Steffy‚ 2011). These explosions were due to a defective blowout preventer and numerous gas leaks seeping up and through the well to the riser pipe‚ connecting to the rig‚ igniting fire. The efforts of attempting to save this flame ridden platform was lost on April 22‚ 2010‚ for the rig‚ Deepwater Horizon‚ sunk. As the rig’s drilling platform fell into the sea
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Formal Analysis of Event Horizon “Event Horizon” is a site-specific work by Kara Walker commissioned by the New School University that wraps around the walls in the staircase found in the lobby at Arnhold Hall. The piece was commissioned in 2005 and there are clear signs of student interaction with finger smudges along where the railing touches the wall. The piece is done with latex paint on wall using only black paint to create the shapes on the wall. The artist’s piece revolves around the ideas
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The Deep Horizon oil rig explosion was categorically impacted by bias decision making. The leaders that day executed from a heuristic view‚ and also from an overconfidence bias. The two corporations colliding that day‚ BP and Transocean‚ underestimated the calamity occurring right before them. Twenty anomalies occurring simultaneously did not cause significant alarm to make a drastic and immediate decision to prevent the explosion. The team minimized the probability that the rig would explode
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Creative Writing: Unexpected Horizons Wow! I love going deep sea fishing on our boat. I was excited when my dad had asked me if I wanted to go this weekend. We departed that Saturday morning after almost a week of sheer anticipation‚ our destination‚ Port Canaveral‚ home of of some of the best fishing on the east coast of Florida. The sea is a very dangerous place when riled by a storm‚ even a mild one‚ so we always made sure the day would be at least close to perfect before we ventured out
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The NASA project New Horizon may build on its successes via Kuiper Belt flyby. The New Horizon team of researchers also plans to study MU69 in more depth. Could this be another secret alien space mission? New Horizon had recent success after it accomplished its Pluto flyby without crashing or deviating from its scheduled course. This has been impressive for NASA‚ given the distance from Earth to Pluto. However‚ there may be more at stake for the MU69 mission. Maybe NASA is looking to make contact
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New Horizons Mission Design YANPING GUO and ROBERT W. FARQUHAR Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory‚ 11100 Johns Hopkins Road‚ Laurel‚ MD 20723-6099‚ U.S.A. (e-mail: yanping.guo@jhuapl.edu‚ robert.farquhar@jhuapl.edu) Abstract The mission design for the New Horizons mission went through more than five years of numerous revisions and updates before its launch on January 19‚ 2006. For the baseline mission design‚ the New Horizon spacecraft is expected to fly by Jupiter on February
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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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