Gulf of Mexico

The tragic effects of the BP oil spill A tragic explosion on April 20th, 2010 changed the Gulf of Mexico and the area surrounding it completely. This was the disastrous explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The oil industry has been a large part of the United States’ history for decades and the company BP has been part of it since the start of oil production. According to the article “Standard Oil Company and Trust American Corporation”, John D. Rockefeller ran the Standard Oil Company from

Environmental Protection Agency stated that the tragic oil spill in in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank the platform resulting in loss of lives and unprecedented $5.5 billion Clean Water Act penalty and up to $8.8 billion in natural resource damages in Deepwater Horizon(DWH) and the largest oil spill in the history of marine oil drilling operations. The ongoing oil exploration in Gulf of Mexico shows us that offshore drilling could be dangerous and hazardous for marine wildlife and

and injured 17 others. The dangerous hydrocarbon gas that surrounded the blowout preventor malfunction, which caused the gas to encounter an ignition source was the cause of the explosion, and it led to massive oil spills in the offshore of the Gulf of Mexico (Crandall et al., 2014). It was considered to be the largest accidental oil spill in the world and an environmental

managing change in british petroleum CONTENTS: * A view of British Petroleum * A brief description of BP incident in the Gulf of Mexico. * Critical Evaluation of Potential changes that may take place in BP * Evaluation the importance of change and Potential problems when implementing change * Evaluation the effectiveness of BP strategy for managing change within the organisation * Conclusion * A view of British Petroleum British Petroleum also

The coast of the Gulf of Mexico is an extremely important habitat for a wide variety of migratory birds. When these birds come in contact with oil and other contaminates, they bring those contaminates to where ever they migrate to which can be as far as Alaska or South America (Tangley, 2010). Due to seabird’s susceptibility to the effects of oil, the amount of seabird deaths in the Gulf is easily in the hundreds of thousands and keeps growing (Balmer

On April 20, 2010, BP’s oil drilling rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Throughout the following months, the company attempted to keep everyone from stockholders to environmental activists updated with their cleanup efforts. The mass amounts of oil that spilled into the Gulf took many years to cleanup. Most of BP’s updates came from press releases, along with speaking to reporters about their cleanup efforts. The idea of writing press releases for a company allows the public to stay

a major growing state in the business industry, we as residents of the state should realize the potential that the state has, and should work together to bring in more jobs to our people. We are located within miles of the Gulf of Mexico and next to the border with Mexico. The state of Texas many commercial airports, making us one of the leaders of the movement of goods across the country. Many businesses come to Texas for it offers low taxes to corporate income taxes. We also offer 12 million

2006). This is supported by the statistics from August 2006, where the death total surpassed 1800 and the cost of the destruction was projected to be near $125 billion (Kates et al., 2006). Katrina produced extensive destruction alongside the central Gulf coast states (i.e. Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida) of America and that resulted in many residents having to abandon their homes (Parker, 2009). For example, the New Orleans flooding that followed the Katrina was disastrous as it resulted in the

At 6:10 am on Monday, August 29th, a class 4 sea tempest named Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast, ruining to everything in its way. On August 24th, the temperature of the sea off the bank of the Bahamas floated around 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Warm, damp air was ascending from the sea surface. As the air rose, it consolidated to frame an arrangement of electrical storms. This buildup discharges heat, which warms the cool demeanor of the environment, making it rise. As that air

In addition, they had to find the most efficient and effective way to remove the oil from the ocean and gulf to keep it from spreading to the shorelines while preparing cleanup operations. After the explosion of the oil tanker, one of the first actions of BP was to place booms around the spill, to prevent oil from reaching the shorelines, so they could figure