The Exploration Of The Arctic Oil Spills

Believe it or not, oil has been a big deal in america.Ever since the colonization up to today. The early American Colonist used oil for lamp propellant and for oiling machines. On August 28 of the year 1859, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil company, before renaming to Seneca Oil Company, first struck oil in the colonies in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The owner of the Seneca Oil company was Colonel Edwin Drake. He called himself a colonel to impress. Edwin Drake was not a real colonel. “He was called “Crazy Drake” because he wasted more than 40,000 dollars from investor’s and his own in a research, that didn’t give results until a year or more after.” Edwin Drake made it possible for the use of a drilling rig on a well successfully. The Seneca Oil produced

In Texas, there is an economic powerhouse that not only runs deep beneath fields of cotton, but also reaches miles beyond the green pastures of cattle. Its multitude of uses in daily life also far outweighs the benefits of technology. This resource, greater than any other in Texas, is oil. In 1866 the first commercial oil well was dug near Nacogdoches, Texas but unfortunately the well came up dry. Thirty years later in 1894 oil was discovered in Corsicana, Texas by accident while a water well was being dug. This was the first economically significant discovery of oil in Texas. On January 10, 1901, Texas was catapulted into the era of oil and gas with the discovery at Spindletop. The Spindletop well, located south of Beaumont produced roughly

When people hear the word oil it is commonly interpreted as gas, but the oil that we drill is not what goes into our cars. The oil that is retrieved from the ground is called crude oil, Oil in its raw natural form and when it becomes refined it is used in plastics, rubber, and gasoline. ”Gasoline is a volatile, flammable liquid obtained from the refinement of petroleum, or crude oil. It was originally discarded as a byproduct of kerosene production.” The first oil well was found and harvested in Titusville, Pennsylvania by a man named Edwin L. Drake, in 1859. The well was about 70 feet deep (How gas). It pumped between 20-40 barrels a day

Gas prices are increasing roughly every month or so as a result of the scarcity of oil. Some people just shrug the price increase off and cope with it, but the economic effect is far greater than it first appears. As the price of oil increases, so does the price of all other products that are transported. There is, however, an opportunity for the United States to increase the supply of available crude oil by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The idea of drilling in the Arctic has been controversial and to the present day is still being debated. The United States’ need to determine whether drilling in the Arctic will be a worthwhile consideration, or if there are not sufficient benefits to counteract the harmful

Oil, known as black or liquid gold is a resource that has been the obsession of America ever since our country began to use it. It has shaped alliances, wars, and our current economic and political climate. Oil is efficient, relatively common, and now it has been found in large quantities in the Bakken Oil Fields, in North Dakota. The discovery of oil can only mean one thing, oil companies are ready to swoop in and make a profit. Energy Transfer Partners is the company with rights to construct a 1,172-mile oil pipeline to connect the Bakken oil fields with its refineries, to provide 100% domestically produced American energy to the American people.

The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is one of America's last great wilderness areas. It is home to many animals such as polar bears, wolves, and grizzly bears, caribou herds, snow geese, musk oxen, and dozens of other species. If your oil companies keep drilling in the Arctic, most of these beautiful creatures will die, and some will become extinct.

The critical part of Alberta’s past, present, and future depend on the drilling rigs on the prairies. Since 1914, when Alberta’s first major oil field was discovered at Turner Valley, oil resources have been a very important facet of the provinces ways of life. Alberta's oil industry is an important part of the provinces economy. It has provided thousands of jobs in production, transportation, refining, distribution, and marketing. Crude oil production has been the third-largest source of

There has been much controversy when it comes to oil companies in the Arctic over the past few years. The oil industry has invested heavily in the development of Alaska’s Arctic natural resources and Shell has invested $3 billion to purchase leases and prepare for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort and Chuckchi seas (WWF, 2010). Between 2008 and 2010 Imperial Oil Ltd., British Petroleum, Chevron and Exxon Mobil purchased offshore exploration leases in the Canadian Beaufort Sea and the Canadian government continues to sell offshore exploration licenses for Arctic energy exploration (Noble et al., 2012).

Only five years ago thousands of birds, dolphins, and sea turtles were washing up on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico slicked and smothered by oil. The explosion of British Petroleum's Macondo oil rig off the coast on Louisiana was the largest environmental disaster to have occurred in the United States. This well leaked over 130 million gallons of light crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, destroying habitats and killing massive amounts of wildlife. Over eighty-seven days the oil spread through the water in a 21 mile plume, creating oil slicks on the surface of the water. Oil within the Gulf caused alarming short-term effects to wildlife in the initial days of the spill, but as these short term effects begin to disappear, BP was quick to claim

The leak after it was fixed was the size of Kansas (Friedman 100). There was 47,829 local, state, and federal responders to help clean up the oil (Friedman 100). There was 9,700 vessels that helped clean up the oil spill which were 6,500 government and commercial vessels and 3,200 vessels of opportunity (Friedman 100). 3.8 million feet of hard boom and 9.7 million feet of soft boom was used during the clean up to clean up the oil (Friedman 100). There was 127 surveillance aircraft used to help with the cleanup (Friedman 101). There was 1.4 million barrels of liquid waste collected and 92 ton of solid waste recovered (Friedman 101). They recovered more than 800,000 barrels of oily water from the Ocean and Coastal areas (Friedman 101). The oil spill effected the fish population by a large amount (Brown 18). The largest US oil spill in history is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, which impacted ecosystems and residents of the Gulf Coast (Peres 1208). In 3 months over 200 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico (Peres 1208). The BP controlled burned 1.84 million gallons of chemicals to break up the oil (Peres 1208). The clean-up employed several thousand workers (Peres 1208). The

On March 24th 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound Alaska, spilling roughly 10.8 gallons of crude oil polluting over a thousand miles of Alaska’s coast (Gerken, 2014). At its time, it was the worst oil spill in history, lasting for several days. It was caused by the negligence of the captain who was reportedly intoxicated at the time. The oil was very quickly dispersed over a wide area of land because of extreme tidal fluctuations and a storm several days after the spill (http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152720).

As CEO of such a large corporation as Shell, you know the risks of drilling oil in any part of the world. I understand you must make a significant amount of money for oil is not a cheap resource. Do you ever worry about the destruction and danger your product brings to this planet?

On March 24, 1989 there was an Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident off of Alaska. The oil tanker carried around 50 million gallons. Of those 50 million gallons, about 11 million were spilled. It was a devastating spill that covered more than 1200 miles of shoreline with oil. Due to the size of the spill, a lot of time and effort was used to clean up the oil. About 10,000 workers, 1000 boats, and 100airplanes/helicopters were involved in the cleanup.

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.

The Prudhoe Bay reservoir, with an estimated recoverable 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas, is twice as large as any other oil field in North America. The Trans-Alaska pipeline was completed in 1977 at a cost of $7.7 billion. Oil flows through the 800-mile-long pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.