Deepwater Horizon Spill -- How Big, How Bad? (cover story)The article reports on the oil spill from the Macondo/MC252 oil rig of BP plc in the Gulf of Mexico. The company is using a riser insertion tube tool (RITT) to collect up to 2,000 barrels of oil per day although its ...
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We address the research question: 'Did the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have similar psychosocial impacts as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill?' We an... DA Gill,LA Ritchie,JS Picou,... - 《Natural Hazards》 被引量: 14发表: 2014年 How public health impact is addressed: a retros...
Three Mile Island, Challenger, Chernobyl—and now, Deepwater Horizon. Like those earlier disasters, the destruction of the drilling rig was an accident waiting to happen.
well. The blowout decades); however, in each case chance factors— ignited, killing 11 people, sinking the rig, and trig- favorable wind direction, no one welding near the gering a massive underwater spill that would take leak at the time, for instance—helped prevent an months to contain...
effects of worst-case events to take into account the uncertainties and possibility of a major oil spill happening. The Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010 underlined this group’s view while the petroleum sector considered the Deepwater Horizon blowout irrelevant for the BSMP due to differing ...
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Second, high-profile disasters like the Piper Alpha incident in 1988 (Paté-Cornell, 1993), the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 (Plater, 2011, Coll, 2012), Shell׳s Brent Spar incident in 1995 (Frynas, 2003, Sluyterman, 2007, Sluyterman, 2010), and the recent Deepwater Horizon accident...
In July 2015, BP Oil Corporation agreed to pay a fine of $18.7 billion for its role in the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by the rupture of BP's Deepwater Horizon well. These funds are earmarked for continued recovery of the coast of the five states affected by the ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, is considered the largest marine accident in the history of the industry. The 2010 incident in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the killing of 11 crew members, posing serious health risks to thousands of ...