BP Oil Spill May 1‚ 2012 Abstract This paper is written on a current article that was recently published. The article is criminal justice related and about the BP oil spills that happened two years ago. The paper will be a brief summary of the article and what has happened since the oil spill. On Tuesday‚ April 24‚ 2012 at 7:40 P.M. Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges in the Gulf oil spill‚ accusing a former BP engineer of deleting
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BP oil spill is ranked as the largest environmental disaster in the world history. As the oil from BP spill washes ashore‚ people on Gulf Coast are suffering huge damages they have never met before. The U.S. government estimates that up to 60‚000 barrels of oil a day are spewing out from the damaged BP drilling rig to Gulf of Mexico. It has ruined the shoreline‚ killed animal and sea life‚ threaten the ecosystem and harmed the tourism and fishing in Louisiana. After the spilling happened‚ US government
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Architecture of the oil tanker From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Oil tankers generally have from 8 to 12 tanks.[1] Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads.[1] The tanks are numbered with tank one being the forwardmost. Individual compartments are referred to by the tank number and the athwartships position‚ such as "one port"‚ "three starboard"‚ or "six center."[1] A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads‚ to give protection
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safer way of deep ocean oil drilling. He has ordered the immediate inspection of all deep water operations in the Gulf of Mexico‚ enforced that no permits will be allowed for drilling new wells without completing the 30-day safety and environmental review‚ and finally a new examination of the safety and environment procedures for oil and gas exploration and development (Daily Compilation). With this preventative measure‚ Obama hopes to succeed in never allowing another oil catastrophe like this occur
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TerShawn Wharton ! Lorenzo’s Oil 01/12/2014 The Lorenzo’s Oil was very impressive with the way the set up was. Nick Nolte‚ Susan Sarandon‚ Peter Ustinov‚ Noah Banks‚ Michael Haider‚ Billy Amman‚ Cristin Woodworth‚ and Zack O’Malley Greenburg being the best actors of the movie in the lead roles really indulges you into the movie. Through out the movie it’s multiple Lorenzo’s and they all p‚ay a terrific part in the movie as actors.It was filmed primarily from September 1991 to February 1992 in
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www.ProcessEngr.com Oil Refinery Processes A Brief Overview Ronald (Ron) F. Colwell‚ P.E. mol`bpp Copyright © 2009 Process Engineering Associates‚ LLC. All rights reserved. “Excellence in Applied Chemical Engineering” Some Historical Events • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3000 BC Sumerians use asphalt as an adhesive; Eqyptians use pitch to grease chariot wheels; Mesopotamians use bitumen to seal boats 600 BC Confucius writes about drilling a 100’ gas well
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ARAB OIL BOOM The Arab oil boom took place after the 1967 war. The 1973 oil crisis began on October 17‚ 1973‚ when Arab members of the OPEC‚ during the Yom Kippur War‚ announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel. This included the United States and its allies in Western Europe. At around this same time‚ the OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil in order to quadruple world oil prices. The dependence
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THE REFINERY ‚WITHDRAWAL OF OIL SUBSIDIES AND APPROPRIATE PRICING IN A LIBERALISED ECONOMY. . INTRODUCTION. Nigeria is blessed with vast quantity of oil making it the 6th largest oil exporter in the organization of petroleum exporting country. Oil is a major source of energy in Nigeria and the world in general. Oil being the mainstay of the Nigerian economy plays a vital role in shaping the economic and political destiny of the country. Although Nigeria’s oil industry was founded at the
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Amy Burkett Environmental Science April 20‚ of 2010 a BP’s oil rig Deep water Horizon had blown up out in the Gulf of Mexico. It had killed 11 people and let more the 200 million gallon of oil into the ocean water. The oil spill had damaged over 1‚000 miles of the shore lines. A study was done by the Center for Biological diversity and it had shown that over 82‚000 birds
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Shell Oil in Nigeria 1. What are some of the factors explaining why corruption and bribery are so high in Nigeria? Nigeria is considered to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Many different forms of corruption are familiar to Nigeria including political corruption‚ bureaucratic corruption‚ electoral corruption‚ embezzlement‚ and bribery. Corruption has even been said to be a viable enterprise in Nigeria due to the involvement of citizens‚ government officials‚ and private
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