Spill

In 2010 on April 20th the Gulf of Mexico had seen the worst environmental disaster the world had ever seen. It started as an explosion on a BP oil rig that took the lives of 11 people and injuring 17 while leaking "...at least 3 million barrels of oil..." (Bryant & Hunter, 2010, para. 2 This was not the first accident that has happened to BP but, certainly the most costly. In 2005 there was an explosion at a refinery in Texas that killed 15 and injured over 180 people (Bryant & Hunter, 2010). They

Gillian Clarke’s Lament and Boey Kim Cheng’s Report to Wordsworth both explore the theme of human damage to nature, powerful vocabulary and literary devices are used to express grief at this situation. Lament is an elegy, set against the Gulf War of 1990. The title‘Lament’ acts as a heading for a list, of lamented people, animals and elements of nature that were destroyed. ‘For’ is the refrain used to start sentences to complement the title, lamenting the deaths and short sentences shows the speed

A presidential oil-spill commission attributed the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion to technological arrogance, hubris, and the overconfidence bias (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). Based on countless engineering theories there were signs that decision makers should have paid more attention to. This disaster could have been prevented, as it was a direct result of cost-cutting decisions made by BP and its business partners. From an engineering perspective BP, Transocean, and Halliburton adequately

After the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez, the US realized that the National Pollution Funds Center was not adequately funded, and the laws were not current on how to respond to this type of a crisis. In particularly, they were insufficient in funding, and the ability to handle the capacity of the damages to compensate under federal law. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) was amended to cover many different aspects of many parts of the amendment. Although the amendments covered multiple areas,

be identified when individuals use data to forecast the chance that an event will occur when uncertainty is factored in. In this case, the individuals involved did not feel like the data collected showed that there was a high probability of an oil spill to occur based on previous

caused the river to run red, and left its ecosystem devastated. This raised awareness in the international forum of the extent of damage that can happen due to chemical spills and prompted substantial changes to the laws surrounding how these facilities operated. In this report I will be looking at the events the unfurled during the spill, the affect that it has had, biologically on the Rhine, and whether the Rhine could even have benefited in some way from this disaster. The fire stated in the most

Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States AUTHOR INFORMATION Corresponding Author E-mail: jlead@mailbox.sc.edu ABSTRACT   INTRODUCTION Oil spills resulting from industrial wastes and maritime disasters have the potential to cause catastrophic damage to aquatic ecosystems. For instance, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 covered an area of approximately 75,000 square kilometers1 , caused severe

On April 20, 2010, a British Petroleum (BP) offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers on the rig and spilling tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It was eventually discovered that natural gas was able to discharge through a concrete core composed of a concrete mixture that used nitrogen gas to accelerate curing. This rendered the concrete too weak to withstand the pressure of the natural gas. (Unfortunately, a similar but less devastating incident happened on another

statement is an imperative part to writing a well-rounded paper. This statement will educate the reader on what the paper is about as well as what the writer’s stance on the issue may be. For example, in my research paper I began with saying “Oil spills have not only been a problem in the United States, but they have also caused damage in many other countries. However, there is a set of safety measures and regulations that can be taken to help

. This oil spill continued for three months; although the remnants are still lingering today, they affected our publics as well as our company as a whole. The proactive strategies we had in place were significantly underdeveloped. As a company, we should have considered the likelihood of such a crisis, as well as better prepared for it. The reactive strategies implemented after the crisis were moderately effective; however, not sufficient enough due to the colossal scale of the spill. Therefore,