accountable for all economic retribution financially and environmentally. The oil rig was under contract by BP and according to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 it stipulated that those parties responsible for the rig or facility which oil is being discharged from—is the responsible party held liable for cleanup costs. The conflict revolves around the fact that BP failed to clean-up the oil after seven days of trying to cap three oil leaks in
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States is sitting on enough recoverable oil to power us for the next 250 years at our current usage rate... The United States is estimated to have 1.4 trillion barrels of oil—or 1.7 trillion‚ if the resources of Canada and Mexico are counted. There aren’t many options for quick relief from high prices at the pump‚ but it is very obvious the sooner we free ourselves from the shackles of oil dependence – foreign and domestic – the sooner we will be free of oil industry profiteering and political pandering
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The 1973 Oil Crisis By Sarah Horton In October of 1973 Middle-eastern OPEC nations stopped exports to the US and other western nations. They meant to punish the western nations that supported Israel‚ their foe‚ in the Yom Kippur War‚ but they also realized the strong influence that they had on the world through oil. One of the many results of the embargo was higher oil prices all throughout the western world‚ particularly in America. The embargo forced
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BP was the ªrst of these companies to change from a reactive to a proactive climate strategy formulation. In 1996‚ it withdrew from the oppositional Global Climate Coalition (GCC)‚ which was characterized as the most powerful lobby organization in climate policy.28 BP then accepted the climate change problem as diagnosed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and gave its support to the Kyoto Protocol. In 1998 BP’s strategy formu- lation developed further in a proactive direction
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INTRODUCTION Oil and Gas refers to the naturally occurring liquid and natural gas specifically made up of long chain hydrocarbons and various organic compounds found beneath the surface of the earth in entrapments called reservoirs; the presence of oil and gas in these reservoirs is the reason humans survive everyday and carry out their daily activities effectively. Different activities are usually carried out to ensure that the oil and gas present in the reservoirs continue to support humans
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Extra Credit Paper 4/24/2015 The Future of the Oil Supply Throughout our lifetimes there has been one thing among others that our society and our world depends on in our everyday lives‚ oil. Oil is one of the things that help our world function in a way other natural resources haven’t been able to. Oil powers our cars‚ planes‚ trains‚ boats and other vehicles that enabled us to travel around the world in a more efficient and quicker time frame. Oil helps us to run our appliances at homes and at
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After the tragic BP oil spill in 2010‚ Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was quoted saying “the day that we’ve been fearing is upon us.” It is obvious that oil spills are a major concern throughout the world and pose a menacing threat to our environment and our public health. When hearing the phrase “oil spill‚” many immediately think about death‚ destruction and disaster. Unfortunately‚ a majority of people only acknowledge the devastating and highly publicized oil spills‚ but what they don’t see
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Comparative Nutritional Quality of Palmstearin Liquid Oil Blends and Hydrogenated Fat (vanaspati) S. Ray and D.K. Bhattacharyya* Department of Chemical Technology‚ University Colleges of Science and Technology‚ Calcutta University‚ Calcutta - 700 009‚ India ABSTRACT: An attempt was made to use high-melting lowdigestible fat palmstearin as a vanaspati substitute by blending it with polyunsaturated fatty acid-rich liquid oils. This blending produced fat products of zero-trans fatty acid content
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BP is one in six of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. BP stands for British Petroleum‚ but that was not the first name of the gas and oil company‚ it all started in 1908. Explore George Reynold’s went on a mission to find oil in Persia and he did not fail. The mission was actually for a man by the name of William D’Arcy. This oil that was found became part of BP’s first company name the Anglo-Persian Oil Company‚ but that’s not what everyone thinks or knows about when someone says BP
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Downstream Oil Industry According to REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8180(AN ACT DEREGULATING THE DOWNSTREAM OIL INDUSTRY‚ AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES) ; Downstream oil industry shall refer to the business of importing exporting‚ re-exporting‚ shipping‚ transporting‚ processing‚ refining‚ storing‚ distribution‚ marketing and/or selling‚ crude oil‚ gasoline‚ diesel‚ liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)‚ kerosene‚ and other petroleum and crude oil products The Philippines downstream oil industry had been deregulated since1998
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