www.evtn.com Case Study Voraxial Oil Spill Recovery System A System Designed for Service on Open Waters ® Summary: April 2010 This Case Study summarizes the design and function of the Voraxial® Oil Spill Recovery System. The Voraxial® Oil Spill Recovery System is designed to recover the free floating oil from surface waters and industrial facility wastewater ponds. The oil is separated by a Voraxial Separator into a clean water stream and a concentrated oil steam. The water is returned to the
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vijay23112004@yahoo.co.in Abstract Hydrocarbon contamination in the environment has been a notable problem since years. Particularly the major oil spills in last few decades, and resulting loss to biodiversity has brought public attention to this problem. Bioremediation is a promising approach for recovery of environmental sites contaminated with crude oil and other hydrocarbons. Many microorganisms have been identified to possess hydrocarbon degradation potential. This review covers an overview of
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counties are the protection of the shores and beaches. Through recent years there have been oil spills in the gulf that have threatened numerous environments, endangered species, as well as hurt the tourism industry. The most threatening spill was the famous BP oil spill of 2010. This spill devastated numerous species of wildlife and hurt businesses for years. Although this is an ongoing threat, the greedy oil industry is still pushing for more offshore drilling which is forcing activists of all organizations
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Mahmoud ENG 108 Professor Jamie Bonell 06 October 2015 Article Critique “An Oil Spill’s Aftermath,” written by Beth Mole is about North America’s largest oil spill noted to be visible from space. The spill occurred following an explosion of a Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico by the oil company BP. Killing 11 rig workers, this was the beginning of an 87-day eruption totaling of about 5 million barrels of oil and hundreds of thousands of metric tons of gas gushing from the well measuring
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Causes and Effects of Gulf Oil Disaster As the situation of environment is becoming worse than ever these days, the explosion of Deepwater Horizon ship has been making things the worst with the enormous damages since this incident happened on April 20th 2010. This disastrous accident happened under the 2nd biggest oil company BP’s poor responsibility. According to this accident, about 30 laborers died or got deadly hurt then the ship started to sink down couple days after the exploding. As an unofficial
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Oil Spill Environmental Diaster Thursday, April 29, 2010. The massive oil spill off the gulf coast is an environmental disaster. Since it was an oil rig that blew, the oil is leaking from an underwater well, deep in the ocean. It has been hard to calculate how much oil continues to leak, but today it appears to be leaking at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, not 1,000 as had been thought, and that the spill could reach the coast by Friday. And they don’t have a way to stop the leaking. This is different
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Offshore Oil Drilling Offshore oil drilling has been an ongoing battle for years. Being from Louisiana, I understand that offshore drilling is a big part of our lives and keeps most of our men employed, including my husband. Oil spills are not a very frequent occurrence but when it does happen it is devastating to our planet, animals, and businesses. When things like this happen it can have a very bad impact on other businesses in the area. It can start with the fisherman and then streamline to
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English 1301, 9:05 MW P. Schmidt, HLN Paper# 3 Research Paper October 22, 2014 After the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a research by Douglas. B. Inkley shows that scientists are still assessing the effects of the estimated 170 million gallons of oil that flooded into the Gulf after the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The effects of oil spills can have wide ranging impacts that are often portrayed by the media as long lasting environmental disasters. Such perceptions are understandable
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1. Introduction This report will identify a crisis facing BP company, the Gulf of Mexico spill, and investigate how the organization response to the society. In this report, it will use Legitimacy theory to explain BP’s response to this event. Legitimacy theory can be treated as a explanation for voluntary corporate disclosures in annual report. As (Dowling&Pfeffer, 1975) says a corporation must act in congruence with norms and society value. First of all, Legitimacy theory is based on the
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