Causes Of The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

On the afternoon of January 28, 1969, a terrible environmental disaster occurred when a well blowout on the Union Oil Company platform A, causing one of the largest oil spill in the United States. The platform was located in Summerland Oil Field pier which 6 miles east of city of Santa Barbara. Riggers desperately tried to repair the well before oil started spreading to the shoreline. Needless to say, the effects of the oil spill sparked outrage from the local community and the media that inevitably caused ecological effects, safety and ethical concerns. It took oil workers a total of 11 days to cap the ruptured pipe, while an estimated 3 million gallons of poisonous black crude oil showered the Pacific Ocean. Sadly, oceans

No one slept for three days, everyone on board assisting in keeping the boat upright. By September 11, George Ashby told the captain the obvious fact that we were taking on water. Many more labourers were sent down to fuel the boat as we tried to regain control but it did little to help. Water was slowly rising and all non-fuel workers were told to start bucketing out water. The cold sea continued to engulf our previously sturdy ship.

On April 20, 2010 the largest accidental marine oil spill in human history took place in the Gulf of Mexico. The incident resulting in methane gas was released and exploded killing 11 rig workers and having a major impact on our marine wildlife.

After giving this order, the Captain then handed over control of the ship to his Third Mate, Gregory Cousins. At this time, Cousins was told that upon reaching a certain point he was to have the ship reenter its previous, safer, shipping lane. Prior to reaching this point, Harry Claar was relieved of his duties by fellow Helmsman Robert Kagan, who would be in control of the ship until its ill-fated destiny. For reasons unknown to this day, the order was never followed and the ship never returned to its appropriate shipping lanes and at 12:04 a.m., less than 3 hours after leaving port the Exxon Valdez would run aground on Bligh Reef. As with any major event as soon as the Valdez incident occurred people began to search for an explanation and blame had to be placed on someone.

result of disasters such as the Gulf oil spill in 2010 and the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, both

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil spill was the largest spill in history in front of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. This oil spill released about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean. This spill not only wreck havoc on the marine life but also the economic players that depended on ocean such as fisherman, tourism, and offshore drilling located along the gulf coast. Along will the spill the oil rig which was named Deepwater Horizon also went up in flames. This proved that the issue went far beyond just an oil rig that blew a line. Since this oil spill had drastic impacts all along the coast, BP which was the most liable for this incident faced criminal charges based on what happened. BP which knew the risks of deep ocean drilling failed to take the necessary safety procedures to reduce the risks of such incident occurring, thus was the reasoning behind placing most of the fault on them and not the other companies. The lack of regulatory oversight led to the issues and cost-cutting procedures opened the rig up to possible malfunctions like the one that occurred. During the spill into the gulf, BP sealed the well with cement which seemed to stop a majority of the oil from escaping the well. BP also recognized that the well was “dead” which was proven wrong when scientists still could conclude was leaking minor amounts of oil into the ocean. This spill not only proved to be harmful to the environment but also

Lutra canadenis, river otter, in the Prince William Sound, Alaska encountered major effects for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (Duffy et al. 1994). Lutra canadenis consume marine fish and marine invertebrates which makes them unique from freshwater otters and inshore otters (Bowyer et al. 1995). L. canadenis are terrific species to display pollution effects on mammals (Duffy et al. 1994). It was noted by, Duffy et al. that river otters in the areas located in the oil spill had a decrease in body weight and the levels of haptoglobin in the blood was elevated. Duffy et al. discovered that the river otters in the areas affected by the oil had a higher level of haptoglobin, aspartate aminotransferase, and interleukin which indicated that there was

“One of the last best places on earth”-Holleman, Marybeth. The water was innocently untouched before the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef. As oil spillage only grew cleanup began to take place right away. The recovery was a long process due to lack of efforts. In addition, discussions formed at the scene questioning if this was a crime, an accident, or a felony (Lewis, G). Although the Exxon Valdez oil spill was one of the most devastating environmental disasters, the response to the following oil spills didn’t significantly improve.

The first most significant fact about the Exxon disaster is that more than 300,000 birds and 2,600 otters were killed because of the oil spill. The reason for this large number of animals being killed was because of the ingestion of toxic chemicals, starvation, and because of hypothermia when trying to swim through the oil causing the oil to soaked feathers, which than cause the birds to lose their insulating capacity. The second significant fact is that the cleanup that they were trying to do was futile because when they would clean the oil up more oil would come back cause only 3% of the oil to be clean. The third most significant fact is that with the steam cleaners and pressure washing only drove the oil deep into the ground and rocky

The pack had closed around our ship. With our ship licked in the ice, there wasn't much for us to do. The fo'c'sle hands, the sailors whose job it was to run the ship, had no sailing to do, and Worsley had no captaining to do. The rest of us, we found ways to stay busy. I kind of enjoyed having a bit of free time. Hurley took some pictures, and amazed all of us with his fearlessness, and yelling outrageous Australian curses, just for fun. The only person's job that stayed the same was Charles Green's. We needed to eat no matter what. The scientists kept up with their experiments. Hussey continued to take meteorological readings as the summer began to fade on February 17. The sun was beginning to dip below the horizon at midnight.

This article begins by exploring the notion of society’s trust in the corporation despite the many scandals that have come to light in recent years. Examples of huge scandals of the 1990s that were sensationalised in the media include Enron’s accounting fraud, the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, and Bre-X’s falsified mining operations.

There are a few reasons identified as how the oil spill occurred. One reason was that the Exxon Shipping Company failed to supervise the Captain who was thought to be heavily drinking on the night of the crash. Exxon also didn’t provide a rested and sufficient crew for the Exxon Valdez, possibly to save money.

Oil spills all over the world, the one we can remember most is Exxon Valdez in

The Exxon Valdez Oil spill in 1989 had ran into Bligh Reef in Prince William Sounds in Alaska; 11 million gallons of crude oil was spilled and eventually covered 1,000 miles of coastline. Many animals were affected and were killed such as sea otters and sea birds. The spill had a detrimental effect on the food chain.

Deepwater Horizon oil Spill: BP’s drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico had an explosion in April 2010, causing the “largest oil spill catastrophe in the petroleum industry history”. It caused the death of 11 men and injury to several others. “More than 150,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the sea, every day, for almost 5 months and up to 68,000 square miles of the Gulf 's surface were covered” (1).