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    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

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    internship at Thermax India Pvt. Lmtd., I worked on time study and method study in order to establish standard protocols for the job. The time study for reducing the working time of drilling and boring on the outer surface of water boilers as well as steam boilers on a Radial Drilling machine using a different type of drilling machine having replaceable headers was accomplished by me which taught me that a new and improved method of accomplishing work should be implemented so as to help save time as well

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    advisor on energy and climate.The offshore drilling industry has made tremendous technological strides since first freestanding structure,. for drilling was built in 1937 in the Gulf of Mexico in 14 feet of water, and more than a mile offshore. Therefore, ten years later, the first well from which oil is being produced located out of sight of land was drilled from a fixed platform off the Louisiana coast. On April 20, 2010, the deepwater horizon offshore drilling rig exploded in the gulf of Mexico. Due

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    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. Functionary reports indicated that the 10.8 million US gallons of oil were spilled into the Prince Williams Sound. According to National Transportation Safety Board the cause of the incident: • The Exxon Shipping Company fail to supervise the master on providing a rested and sufficient

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    Oil constantly surrounds consumers throughout the world, whether it be in transportation, electricity, and heating. Since consumers use, transportation, electricity, and heating every day, the demand for oil has surged and thus, multiple companies race to provide this dark elixir promptly. As all thoughts concentrate on the speed in which oil becomes transported, reckless mistakes happen, which swiftly unleashes the toxic elixir into the ocean. The oil then resides in the water with death looming

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    Its is a beautiful day in the bright blue ocean when a loud explosion is heard just a distance away, oil rises from the ocean. The birds and marine life are covered in a black substance and soon die afterwards. And what was once a beautiful ocean is now a sea of corpses. This is what happened when the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill occurred on April 20, 2010. it is the worst oil spill in history, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the gulf, affecting the environment, the wildlife and the economy

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    2010”. It is the largest marine oil spill in the history, it caused approximately 41 miles (66 kilometers) leakage off the coast of Louisiana, and its subsequent sinking on April 22. The Deepwater Horizon rig is owned and operated by offshore-oil-drilling company Transocean and leased by oil company BP. After leakage accident, BP company has agreed to pay $175 m to settle claims that it deceived shareholders by underplaying the severity of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. About 4.9m barrels of crude

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    The History Of B. P. Oil

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    named William D’Arcy. He was a mining entrepreneur who was very wealthy and invested most of his money in the Persian oil exploration to search for oil along the Persian coastline. The drilled and drilled for more than six years and finally after drilling almost 1200 feet into the ground; oil spewed out. “The BP oil spill of 2010 was the biggest oil spill in the history of the United States because in this year 200 or more million gallons of crude oil was propelled into the Mexico’s gulf for total

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    Howard A. Zimmerman, although a little strange, was a normal everyday guy. However, he did not have many friends because he lived much of his life in the laboratory. His fascination with mixing and testing the various elements on the periodic table went far beyond a job, it was an obsession. A little over a year ago, Howard accepted a job at Rex Industries in Toronto, Canada. It was an exciting opportunity for Howard because he had never traveled outside the United States. He could not pass up the

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    The Deepwater Horizon was a drilling rig explosion that occurred April 20, 2010, and ended in a fire. The rig was owned and operated by Transocean, and the drilling was done by BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field (McGill & Schwartz, 2010). Due to drilling below sea level, the explosion caused a fire and resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, the death of 11 people and injured 17 others. The dangerous hydrocarbon gas that surrounded the blowout preventor malfunction, which caused the gas

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