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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Case Study
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a catastrophe of unparalleled proportions. As "the largest spill of oil in the history of marine drilling operations," the consequences of incident reverbrated through the civilized world (U.S. Government, 2022). Endless environmental harm and humanitarian impacts, all due to corporational prioritization of ...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22. ... A study showed that up to 800,000 birds were thought to have died ...
Academy Case Study: The Deepwater Horizon Accident Lessons for ...
May 11, 2011. APPEL News Staff. May 10, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 3. The events leading up to the Deepwater Horizon accident offers several cautionary lessons for NASA. Offshore oil drilling is complex work that employs state-of-the art technology in an extremely dynamic environment. It involves using a drilling rig to penetrate the ocean floor, and ...
PDF Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: An Ethics Case Study in Environmental
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a novel, unique, and effective engineering ethics case study for promoting students' ethical reasoning development. In this paper, we have argued that this case is particularly useful for developing students' tendency to consider the broad scope of stakeholders impacted by engineering decisions, including ...
(PDF) Case Study: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Its
In the early stages of the Exxon V aldez spill, P AHs (Fig. 10.2b) were measured. in surface waters of the spill zone as part of an extensive en vironmental surveillance. 10 Case Study: The 2010 ...
(PDF) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Review
Within the technological man-made disaster subcategory, the following disaster case studies are analysed: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (2010); Covid-19 Pandemic (2019-Ongoing ...
Deepwater Horizon
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion, which killed 11 men, caused the rig to sink and started a catastrophic oil leak from the well. Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had spilled into the Gulf, the largest offshore ...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the ...
The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster was the largest single accidental release of oil and gas to the ocean. Over 87 days, oil, gas and dispersants impacted 11,000 km 2 of ocean surface and 2,000 ...
Deepwater Horizon
On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. 4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over an 87-day period, before it was finally capped on July ...
What did we learn from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
The Deepwater Horizon blowout caused gas and oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. Ten years after this environmental disaster, scientists studying the spill better understand the ...
The Deepwater Horizon spill started 10 years ago. Its effects are still
Smoke rises from surface oil being burned by cleanup crews in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. The BP oil spill of 2010 started suddenly, explosively, and ...
BP and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster of 2010
The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, resulted from a series of events and decisions involving employees of BP and its contractors. While there does not appear to be one clear culprit or reason that led to the disaster, the case explores issues of organization, information, and decision-making, as well as the ability or inability of individuals to voice ...
BP and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: A case study of how company
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 people and creating massive damages to wildlife habitats ...
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Through the Lens of Human Health and
Abstract. This review examines current research ascertaining the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on human health and ecosystems. Driven by the need to strategically focus research funding, the authors also assess the implications of those findings, and promote a transdisciplinary research agenda addressing critical gaps.
Deepwater Horizon, 5 years on
In the case of the Deepwater Horizon incident, lack of an accurate discharge rate almost certainly hindered the early response efforts, which assumed a discharge rate of 1000 to 5000 barrels of oil per day, a gross underestimate of the actual discharge ().Higher estimates of 26,500 barrels of oil per day were obtained in mid-May on the basis of remote-sensing data (); however, this estimate ...
What happened during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
The volume and duration of this spill were greater than any previous spill in U.S. history: 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of 87 days. The explosion that caused the spill also killed 11 people and injured 17. In order to address the spill, scientists had to identify exactly where the oil was coming ...
A deep dive into BP's Deepwater Horizon Spill: a case study
Author: Lucil Aguada. Under pressure - the disaster Considered as the biggest marine disaster in history, on April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members working onsite. The rig eventually sank and damaged the pipe underneath and started to spew millions of barrels of crude oil into the.
Lessons Learned from the Deepwater Horizon Spill
Here, Smith cites a few lessons of the spill: 1. Numbers can be deceiving. "There's tremendous pressure in the corporate and scientific worlds to convert uncertainty to risk," says Smith. Take an uncertainty, assign it a probability number then run it through a model to obtain data on how likely a failure might be.
Crisis Management Case Study: Deepwater Horizon
April 5, 2022 By // by Bryan Strawser. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was truly a crisis. Unfortunately, it was also handled in one of the worse ways possible. When a crisis occurs, management and communication become some of the largest and most significant issues. In this particular case, BP failed in both of those areas.
What was the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
What was the Deepwater Horizon disaster? The 2010 event killed 11 people and smothered the Gulf of Mexico in the largest marine oil spill in history. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil ...
Case Study: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Its ...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in crude oil and some organochlorine compounds. (a) Levels of PAHs measured in (top) a surface water sample from the Deepwater Horizon spill zone in the Gulf of Mexico taken June 2010 and (bottom) a high-energy WAF (HEWAF) preparation with Deepwater Horizon-MC252 crude oil used in laboratory exposure studies with bluefin tuna embryos (Incardona et al. 2014).
Biodiversity loss from 2010 oil spill worse than predicted
The black outline shows the estimated impacted area (1100 square miles) of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, significantly larger than previously reported areas. Graphic courtesy Masoud Rostami. A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington; the University of ...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
According to the operator of Deepwater Horizon, "Our goals are simply stated. No accidents, no harm to people, and no damage to the environment.". Clearly the 11 fatalities and 17 injures are an impact to the safety goal. The ~4.9 million barrels (by government estimate) of oil spilled is an impact to the environmental goal.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Devastated Deep-Sea Ecosystem, Affecting 1,100
A new peer-reviewed study found that the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in 2010 harmed wildlife and their habitat in the Gulf of Mexico much more than previously known. The study was conducted by researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Nevada, Reno, Mokwon University in Daejeon, Korea, and Texas A&M ...
Biodiversity loss from 2010 oil spill worse than predicted
Deepwater Horizon oil spill study could lead to overhaul of cleanup processes worldwide. Jan 22, 2024. Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds. Apr 5, 2024.
Dispersants sprayed in wake of Deepwater Horizon oil spill more ...
To study existing and future spill effects, we first needed to test the toxicity of the oil and dispersant on these corals and uncover whether adding dispersants may have done more harm than good.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a catastrophe of unparalleled proportions. As "the largest spill of oil in the history of marine drilling operations," the consequences of incident reverbrated through the civilized world (U.S. Government, 2022). Endless environmental harm and humanitarian impacts, all due to corporational prioritization of ...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22. ... A study showed that up to 800,000 birds were thought to have died ...
May 11, 2011. APPEL News Staff. May 10, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 3. The events leading up to the Deepwater Horizon accident offers several cautionary lessons for NASA. Offshore oil drilling is complex work that employs state-of-the art technology in an extremely dynamic environment. It involves using a drilling rig to penetrate the ocean floor, and ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a novel, unique, and effective engineering ethics case study for promoting students' ethical reasoning development. In this paper, we have argued that this case is particularly useful for developing students' tendency to consider the broad scope of stakeholders impacted by engineering decisions, including ...
In the early stages of the Exxon V aldez spill, P AHs (Fig. 10.2b) were measured. in surface waters of the spill zone as part of an extensive en vironmental surveillance. 10 Case Study: The 2010 ...
Within the technological man-made disaster subcategory, the following disaster case studies are analysed: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (2010); Covid-19 Pandemic (2019-Ongoing ...
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion, which killed 11 men, caused the rig to sink and started a catastrophic oil leak from the well. Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had spilled into the Gulf, the largest offshore ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the ...
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster was the largest single accidental release of oil and gas to the ocean. Over 87 days, oil, gas and dispersants impacted 11,000 km 2 of ocean surface and 2,000 ...
On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. 4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over an 87-day period, before it was finally capped on July ...
The Deepwater Horizon blowout caused gas and oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. Ten years after this environmental disaster, scientists studying the spill better understand the ...
Smoke rises from surface oil being burned by cleanup crews in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. The BP oil spill of 2010 started suddenly, explosively, and ...
The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, resulted from a series of events and decisions involving employees of BP and its contractors. While there does not appear to be one clear culprit or reason that led to the disaster, the case explores issues of organization, information, and decision-making, as well as the ability or inability of individuals to voice ...
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 people and creating massive damages to wildlife habitats ...
Abstract. This review examines current research ascertaining the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on human health and ecosystems. Driven by the need to strategically focus research funding, the authors also assess the implications of those findings, and promote a transdisciplinary research agenda addressing critical gaps.
In the case of the Deepwater Horizon incident, lack of an accurate discharge rate almost certainly hindered the early response efforts, which assumed a discharge rate of 1000 to 5000 barrels of oil per day, a gross underestimate of the actual discharge ().Higher estimates of 26,500 barrels of oil per day were obtained in mid-May on the basis of remote-sensing data (); however, this estimate ...
The volume and duration of this spill were greater than any previous spill in U.S. history: 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of 87 days. The explosion that caused the spill also killed 11 people and injured 17. In order to address the spill, scientists had to identify exactly where the oil was coming ...
Author: Lucil Aguada. Under pressure - the disaster Considered as the biggest marine disaster in history, on April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members working onsite. The rig eventually sank and damaged the pipe underneath and started to spew millions of barrels of crude oil into the.
Here, Smith cites a few lessons of the spill: 1. Numbers can be deceiving. "There's tremendous pressure in the corporate and scientific worlds to convert uncertainty to risk," says Smith. Take an uncertainty, assign it a probability number then run it through a model to obtain data on how likely a failure might be.
April 5, 2022 By // by Bryan Strawser. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was truly a crisis. Unfortunately, it was also handled in one of the worse ways possible. When a crisis occurs, management and communication become some of the largest and most significant issues. In this particular case, BP failed in both of those areas.
What was the Deepwater Horizon disaster? The 2010 event killed 11 people and smothered the Gulf of Mexico in the largest marine oil spill in history. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil ...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in crude oil and some organochlorine compounds. (a) Levels of PAHs measured in (top) a surface water sample from the Deepwater Horizon spill zone in the Gulf of Mexico taken June 2010 and (bottom) a high-energy WAF (HEWAF) preparation with Deepwater Horizon-MC252 crude oil used in laboratory exposure studies with bluefin tuna embryos (Incardona et al. 2014).
The black outline shows the estimated impacted area (1100 square miles) of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, significantly larger than previously reported areas. Graphic courtesy Masoud Rostami. A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington; the University of ...
According to the operator of Deepwater Horizon, "Our goals are simply stated. No accidents, no harm to people, and no damage to the environment.". Clearly the 11 fatalities and 17 injures are an impact to the safety goal. The ~4.9 million barrels (by government estimate) of oil spilled is an impact to the environmental goal.
A new peer-reviewed study found that the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in 2010 harmed wildlife and their habitat in the Gulf of Mexico much more than previously known. The study was conducted by researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Nevada, Reno, Mokwon University in Daejeon, Korea, and Texas A&M ...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill study could lead to overhaul of cleanup processes worldwide. Jan 22, 2024. Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds. Apr 5, 2024.
To study existing and future spill effects, we first needed to test the toxicity of the oil and dispersant on these corals and uncover whether adding dispersants may have done more harm than good.