Montara Oil Spill Research Paper

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

· an LA Times article on the “1969 Oil Spill that changed oil and gas exploration forever”

This leak of gas and oil continued on until the 3rd of November 2009 when the PTTEP AA, were successfully able to stabilise the leak by pumping mud into the well more than 2.5 kilometers below the sea bed this was the fourth of three failed attempts to plug the hole (Gosford). Fortunately no one working at the oil rig during that time was seriously injured, though the same cannot be said for the surrounding ocean and environment. By the time they were able to stop the leak it had already been going for “10 weeks with 400 barrels of oil a day” (wwf - Lessons from Australia’s worst oil spill ignored) being released into the ocean and surrounding environment. The level of damage that had already occurred due to the oil leak on the surrounding environment was devastating and well beyond repair, therefore causing the Montara oil spill to be known as one of Australia’s top environmental disasters. It is only when disasters like these strike and the damage is already done that people choose to either take action as they fully begin to understand the level of devastation we are causing the earth or choose to turn a blind eye and continue along their destructive path, ignoring that of not only the needs of the environment but also the common good.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most infamous industrial environmental disasters ever. On April 20, 2010, a marine oil-drilling dig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion resulted in the loss of human life, massive environmental damage, and widespread damage to the livelihood of people living along the Gulf Coast. The organization with the largest share in the oil drill, BP (Beyond Petroleum), is still facing consequences of this spill and lost millions of dollars as well as national support. The Obama administration also received criticism

The Exxon Valdez oil spill, March 24, 1989, happened in Prince William Sound, Alaska. A tanker spilled 10.8 million us gallons of oil in the water supply. It viewed as Similarly as a human-caused Ecological catastrophe.

has granted the community with life, food, shelter, and has provided them with the values, norms

The British Petroleum oil spill damaged the shorelines of four Gulf states. Worse yet, it took three months to build the relief well to stop the flow. It immediately threatened more than sixty five thousand acres in four National Wildlife Refuges, home to endangered species. Approximately forty percent of the coastal wetlands of the lower forty eight states is located in Louisiana, and it's worth ninety six billion. British Petroleum spent six billion to hire four thousand people to clean up the spill that year. This contributed more than the seven hundred million lost in fishing and tourism revenues and the three thousand jobs lost to the six-month deep-water drilling moratorium

Oil spills have often occurred too many times in this world. Unfortunately, when this does happen, there is always losses of life. Many people are affected by it. There is always a price to pay. On March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilt all its oil into the ocean.

The BP Oil Spill which happened on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history releasing approximately 185 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf. This event was the result of a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowing out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast offs the Louisiana coastline. Eleven men working on the oil rig platform were killed and 17 others were injured. People livelihood and the environment were devastated by this event.

BP oil spill disaster is considered as one of the largest disasters of its magnitude in the US history and thus, one of the largest man-made disasters with huge negative impact on the environment. On 20th April 2010, here was an explosion on the Deep-water Horizon drilling rig, which led to the complete sinking of the offshore rig as well as oil spill that continued for 87 days. Methane gas in the well expanded to the riser and eventually, to the rig. High-pressured gas got inflamed and led to explosion. Two days later, Deep-water Horizon sank in the water completely.

On April 20th, 2010 an explosion occurred that would be considered one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The explosion was cause by a surge of natural gas that made it way to the Horizon rig’s platform that ignited. This caused the rig to capsize and sink, thus breaking risers that were being use to counter act the large amount of pressure from oil and natural gasses (Pallardy, 2015). The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. The explosion caused a massibe leak in the oil wellhead. It took 87 days for the wellhead to be closed and it is estimated that over that time around 210 million gallons of oil leaked into the gulf (Gulf Oil Spill, 2011).

The BP Oil Spill An Introductory Background - One of the most controversial ecological disasters in recent history focused on multinational British Petroleum and their Gulf of Mexico Operations. The Deepwater Oil Disaster began on April 20, 2010 with an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Oil platform, killing 11, injuring 17. It was not until July 15th, however, that the leak was stopped by capping the wellhead, after releasing almost 5 million barrels (206 million gallons) of crude oil, or 53,000 barrels per day into the Gulf of Mexico. It was not until September 19th that the relief well process was complete and the U.S. Government, EPA, and Coast Guard agencies declared the well breach effectively stopped (Cavnar, 2010).

political proportions. This essay will evaluate the effects of the oil spill on the environment, question

The Root of Beyond Petroleum 's Issues in the face of Environmental Disasters, (Mis) Management and their Public Image.

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).