Gulf of Mexico

The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill tells the tragic story of what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig back in April 2010. The rig, leased from another vendor, was digging a well on the Macondo slope in the Gulf when it exploded and fatally killed eleven employees and injured seventeen others (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2014). Not to mention, five million barrels of oil spilled into the sea causing an environmental issue that lasted more than ninety days. Several underlying factors went

miles offshore of Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, the semi-submersible rig SEDCO 135 experienced a blowout while drilling the Ixtoc 1 exploratory well (New York Times, September 23, 1979). Initially, crude oil was flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 30,000 barrels per day; however, Petroleous Mexicanos (Pemex) was able to slow the rate of discharge to between 10,000 and 20,000 barrels per day (U.S. House of Representatives, 96th Congress, September 8-9, 1979, p. 2). Following

April 20, 2010 has gone down in the history books as the day that the most horrific oil spill in history happened. British Petroleum’s leased offshore drilling rig exploded on this day. The Deepwater Horizon caused the largest accidental marine oil spill ever (Crandall, Parnell and Spillan, 2013). The ruptured oil well leaked nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the sea over a three month period of time. The devastation killed eleven men. 17 others were severely injured. The devastation reached

still shows signs of major environmental damage. “There have been many signs, researchers say, that several animals and other living species in the Gulf of Mexico have experienced exceptional loss of life since the spill” (Al, 2014, Par. 1). The specific species from data sampling include: ottlenose dolphins, red snapper, blue crab, Atlantic Bluefin tuna, gulf killifish, sperm whales, sea turtles, white pelicans, seaside sparrows, eastern oysters, coral, common loon, brown pelicans and small marine creatures

OIL AND GAS ECONOMICS ON APRIL 10,2010 THERE WAS A HUGE OIL RIG EXPLOSION AND OIL SPILLED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO WHICH TOOK LIVES OF 11 PEOPLE .THIS OIL SPILL SCENE HAPPENED 40 MILES OFF THE COAST NAMED LOUISSIAN COAST SITUATED IN GULF OF MEXICO.THE BRITISH PETROLEUM GAVE CONTRACT OF DRILLING THE WELL TO SOME TRANS UNION AND DURING THAT DRILLING PERIOD, OIL AND NATURAL GAS LEAKED ON THE OCEAN FLOOR.THE OIL WAS ESCAPED FROM THE HOLE BLOWOUT OF THE DRILLING PIPE AND GAS FOLLOWED THE OIL BECAUSE OIL

Introduction The Gulf Oil Spill was one of the worst oil spills in US History. It took place on April 20, 2010. It happened about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf Of Mexico, and by the Deepwater Horizon. About 672, 000 gallons (3.19 million barrels) of oil was dropped into the ocean. Common names for it include: the Louisiana Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, and BP Oil Spill. How It Happened There are four main reasons as to why this oil spill happened, but they were all

The Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, 2010, pouring nearly 5 million barrels into the sea over a three months’ span. Endangering marine wildlife, as well as workers that were injured during the explosion. There were a 126 people on the rig, twenty-eight workers in total were hurt, leaving eleven that were fatally injured, while the other 17 were severely injured. Four weeks before the explosion, there was a discovery that a worker had bumped the control switch where

fire on board the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, roughly 50 miles off the Louisiana shore, killing 11 individuals and triggering the biggest offshore oil leak in American history. The rig had been in the last periods of drilling an exploratory well for BP, the British oil mammoth. When the well was topped three months later, an expected 4.9 million barrels of raw petroleum had filled the Gulf. The calamity started when a surge of gas from the well shot up a riser

always been dependent upon the nutrient rich deposits from the Mississippi River to build up the land. Centuries ago the Mississippi River periodically changed its course, building up Louisiana one delta at a time. The erosional forces of the Gulf of Mexico and annual hurricanes depleted Louisiana’s coastline, but the mighty Mississippi River would replenish the land losses. Such is the relationship that forces of nature have with one another. Place mankind in the mix, and the relationship becomes

Petroleum’s (BP) in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in a ball of flames on, killing 11 employees. While much of the nation was riveted by the attempts to cap the mile-deep well, the hidden tragedy was the cloud of tens of millions of barrels oil that was slowly creeping toward land. BP and others would work for over a year to clean up the beaches and wetlands affected by the spilled oil. The impact of this was felt by costal wildlife and those who made their business working in the Gulf and along the shore