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    Norhern Gateway Pipeline

    the lifespan of the project? The project will have a lifespan of 30 years (Enbridge Northern Gateway Project). 3. What is being transported in the pipeline? There are 2 pipelines. One is the oil pipeline and the other is the condensate pipeline. They will be transporting petroleum through the oil pipeline (525,000 barrels per day). The condensate pipeline will be transporting condensate, which is a product to thin petroleum (193,000 barrels per day) (Enbridge Northern Gateway Project).

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    Offshore Drilling

    Drilling: A Bad Idea Crude oil is one of the three kinds of fossil fuel (coal, crude oil, and natural gas) that are widely used by humanity. It plays a very important role in our world, as it is one of our primary energy sources. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the United States is the biggest oil consumption country in the world, which consumes 19.5 million barrels of oil per day (EIA, “Country Energy Profiles: Oil Consumption”). Crude oil can not only be found on

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    Ethical Responsibility with Oil Companis

    Responsibility with Oil Companies Lisa Dauwen National American University Abstract There are processes that oil companies need to go through to make sure that they are operating ethically. They include protecting the environment, researching alternative sustainable energies, and making sure that they are allowing for economic growth. This paper will look at 3 oil companies that are familiar to the United States. The paper will also look at the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill and look at any ethical

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    Oil Spill

    catastrophe that we've seen this year by the BP Oil Spill. The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is beyond heart breaking. The 1989, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill has been considered the most devastating, human-caused, environmental disaster ever to occur in history, especially towards the Nigerians, since they are still being affected by it. But, even though the Exxon Valdez happened years ago and Nigerians are still in tight situations due to the spill, I believe the BP Oil Spill is just a beginning of a major political

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    Crisis Communication

    COMMUNICATION The BP Oil Spill Abstract: The subject of my critique is regarding the analysis of British Petroleum's public relations strategy and its portrayal in the media during the 'Deepwater Horizon' oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010. The author is anonymous and has laid out the importance of good communication during major crises. He gives examples of the Johnson & Johnson Tylenol product tampering and the Exxon Valdez oil spill and then compares them with the BP Oil Spill. He points

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    Bp Ethical Issues

    employees of BP for different location, culture and language. Originally, this is a good way to guide the company staff to maintain company standard and reputation. But the code did not effectively address specific high-risk activities for the scope of daily operations. It was quite reasonable because at the very beginning stage of drafting the related guidelines, not every experience or assumed circumstancs were fully considered in the daily operations. Unfortunately, after the spill happened, several

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    The Long- Term Effects of oil on ecosystems: A comparison of the Exxon Valdez and the BP oil spill The Exxon Valdez was a single hull, 987-foot super tanker built by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, out of San Diego, California. The Exxon Corporation commissioned this ship into service on December 11, 1986. After the March of 1989 collision with Bligh Reef, the vessel was towed to the shipyard in San Diego and repaired in June of 1989, more than 1,600 tons of steel needed

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    Deep Water Horion Oil Spill

    Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Letonya Rossi MGMT/1115 Post University 1). Name the organizations which had a stake in the drilling operation. The organizations’ that had stake in the drilling operations were BP Exploration & Production Inc., (were the lease operator of Mississippi canyon block 252, contains Macondo Well), Trans-ocean (chief contractors), Halliburton, (responsible for cementing operations). 2). Should responsibility for the accident be shared among the organizations

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    Oil Spil

    FEATURE pubs.acs.org/est Oil Biodegradation and Bioremediation: A Tale of the Two Worst Spills in U.S. History Ronald M. Atlas* University of Louisville, Louisville Kentucky 40292, United States Terry C. Hazen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States ABSTRACT: The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even

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    Working Paper    The BP Oil Spill as a Cultural Anomaly? Institutional Context,  Conflict and Change    Andrew J. Hoffman  Stephen M. Ross School of Business   University of Michigan    P. Devereaux Jennings  University of Alberta                Ross School of Business Working Paper  Working Paper No. 1151  October 2010            This work cannot be used without the author's permission.   This paper can be downloaded without charge from the   Social Sciences Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: 

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