i i Dedication This report is dedicated to the 11 men who lost their lives on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20‚ 2010 and to their families‚ in hope that this report will help minimize the chance of another such disaster ever happening again. Jason Anderson Aaron Dale Burkeen Donald Clark Stephen Curtis Gordon Jones Roy Wyatt Kemp Karl Dale Kleppinger‚ Jr. Blair Manuel Dewey Revette Shane Roshto Adam Weise ii Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge the many individuals and
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Module Name: Oil & Gas Management Module Code: POG210 Module Leader: James Milne Student Full Name: Desmond Guy Harvest Student ID: 31661 Resit Assignment Essay Abstract: The intention of this Essay is to examine about sufficient understanding BP‚ which is one of the biggest well known since 1908. However the saddest oil spill disaster has taken way the life of 11 BP Employees‚ but it also made an impact in the environment such as ecosystem‚ the ocean’s suffer from oil covering bodies‚ and
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CASE STUDY: THE CAUSE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL ENEE 501 – POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL FOR THE ENERGY INDUSTRY HARJOT BHANDAL 10106493 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 3 BACKGROUND 3 ANALYSIS 5 CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION 5 ENVORNMENTAL EFFECTS 6 ECONOMIC EFFECT 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCES 9 ABSTRACT On the 20th of April 2010‚ a tragic event occurred just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon
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The price of grain went up‚ therefore profits went up as well. Wanting to venture into the oil business‚ he had a lot of research and decisions to make. Edwin Drake striking oil in Titusville‚ PA set off an oil drilling boom. Everyone began drilling for oil. John realized that drilling for oil was a chance‚ with so many people gathering in the region to
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to town meetings and speaking up. Species have no voice and the human population has to step up and be their voice. Human encroachment can have its benefits but it can also have its disasters that can result in the loss of species. Take the drilling in the Artic; some argue it can potentially cause an oil spill like the spill that happened off the Gulf of Mexico. If environmentalists are correct‚ oil spilling will cost millions of dollars to cleanup as well as a hazard to people and species
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extremely small veins of natural gases and oil are trapped. These layers of gases are typically unavailable‚ as they are not naturally bound together in a well like the larger oil reserves are found in the Middle East and in the ocean. Instead of merely drilling down to a depth and pumping up crude oil and venting natural gases they must use technology to open the veins and crevices and seep these gases and hydrocarbon slowly to a well. Instead‚ the oil companies mix water with sand and sometimes chemicals
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DESIGN PROJECT REPORT 1. Design of drill jig for a flange 2. Automatic tapping Submitted to the FACULTY OF ENGINEERING(M.I.T) In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY BY T. SENTHIL NATHAN (20082645) M. VINOTH KUMAR (20082660) C.ELAKKIYA (20082615) DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
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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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one species who migrate here and would be affected if the area became a drilling site and there was environmental degradation from oil leaks‚ CO2 emissions from the rig etc. The USGS have estimated 4.3-11.8 billion barrels of oil are recoverable‚ and this would only contribute between 0.4% and 1.2% of the world’s oil market‚ so the large costs would potentially be for little benefit. However‚ benefits will come with drilling in the area. There will be a tax base for the local government which would
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Sofia Yanez Malik Homework6 1. What is a prior probability? Prior probability is the probability that is initially calculated based on the information or data that is available in that moment. 2. Explain the purpose behind using Bayes Theorem The purpose of the Bayes’ theorem is to revise previously calculated probabilities based on new information. 19.36 Again consider the oil company case that was described in Example 19.1. Recall that the oil company wishes to decide whether to drill
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