Si Peng Professor Sellmer English 123 6 Aug. 2010 Offshore 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
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The BP oil spill and its impact will be felt in the Gulf of Mexico region for years, if not decades. In the months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010, it's estimated that almost five million barrels of oil gushed from the seabed and into the Gulf, making it the worst oil spill in history. Now that the flow of oil has stopped, the scope of the catastrophe is coming into focus, and attention is turning to how things will play out in the court
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experi . In responding to Plumblee's allegations, C)~nce. He was hired in 1990 as part of a new William Howitt, Alyeska~s vice-president of t-"get-tough attitude" towards quality control engineering stated that:(quality-control jobs .after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Over a three were restructured to allow inspectors to mon to-four month period, he wrote 200 so-called itor work in real time so that immediate cor- f~ "discrepancy reports" indicating quality con rections could be made; the inspectors
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SOLVING BP’S PROBLEMS REGARDING THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL Presented to Board of Directors Oil and Energy Company, BP Prepared by John Molson School of Business Representative Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting Major March 23, 2011 MEMORANDUM DATE: March 23, 2011 TO: Board of Directors, Oil and Energy Company, BP FROM:, , Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting Major SUBJECT: SOLVING BP’S PROBLEMS REGARDING THE GULF
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The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker, thought to be carrying 200 million litres (53 million gallons) of crude oil, en route to Long Beach, California when it ran aground on the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska on the 24th March 1989 in turn causing the ship to spill 43 million litres (11 million gallons) of its crude oil into the sea. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, eventually covered 1,300 miles of coastline and 11,000 square miles of ocean. The captain of the
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989 Isaac Mitchell Maine Maritime Academy The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 occurred in Prince William Sound off the coast of southwestern Alaska. The date when the oil tanker ran aground was March 24th, 1989. It struck Bligh Reef at about 12:04 a.m. There have been various estimates of how much oil spilled into the ocean. A total of 11 million US gallons was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill’s volume, used by the State of Alaska’s Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee
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1/9 I. Background Information Exxon Valdez March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on the Bligh Reefs in Prince William Sound, Alaska spilling 10.8 million gallons or 20% of the ship’s cargo. It was the 34th largest oil in the world at the time and the largest in U.S.A. The oil spill killed 500,000 birds over 90 species more than 4000 sea otters, 14 killer whales and destroyed tourism and the fish industry of the area. It was said on reports that the probable reason on why the tanker
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Ethical 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
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Maybe the date is a special date because it is the day you or someone you know got married. All of these could be correct; however March 23rd, 1989 is also the date that began one of the worst environmental crimes in history. On this date, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 10.8 million gallons of unrefined Alaskan crude oil into the sea off the coast of the Prince William Sound. Thousands of animals died immediately, of that included an estimated 250,000 '' 500,000 seabirds, 2,800 - 5,000 sea otters
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been documented in the safety, security, health, environmental and product safety policies. All of these are put through the management system. The legal issues that they had been when there was an oil spill in Alaska. It was a major one. It was the Valdez oil spills which happen on March 24, 1989. According to the news it was the lowest point in Exxon Mobil’s 125 year history. Exxon Mobil took immediate responsibility for the spill; it cost them 4.3 billion
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