On December 23rd 2009 at 6:15 pm onboard the Sedco 711 semi-submersible rig operated by Shell E&P, a blowout occurred. This occurred during the upper completion clean up phase of the well. According to the UK parliament’s Memorandum and Transocean’s report, the blowout happened due to an underbalanced column of drilling fluids in the well. This is very similar to the Macondo Blowout, as it also involved an underbalanced column of mud. The only noticeable difference is the use of an unusual spacer and the cementing of the final casing string during the negative pressure testing phase were identified as the potential contributors to the April 20th incident. The set of events that contributed to the blowout on the Sedco 711 rig weren’t isolated, as they involve a routine procedure in the North Sea. After the lower completion had been installed and the pressure testing of the isolation packer and the formation isolation valve was done, the …show more content…
I am to date puzzled by the graphic images that were being displayed on every news channel and every website ranging from social media to political websites. It was just completely unexpected and unheard of. After all, who would expect a blowout of that magnitude to happen in US waters? It did happen however and it shook the industry as a whole. It shaped the future of Deepwater oil exploration. This was meant to be the wake-up call that we were in great need of, to be able to stop all malpractices. To be able to see in bright light the true opportunity cost of cutting corners. Capping stacks were introduced and taken seriously, enough to make capping stacks a new facet of the offshore drilling industry as a post-blowout remedial procedure. Capping stacks were introduced as basically a coupling of a BOP ram and a containment cap, this dual barrier provided an effective push against a blown out
On April 9, 1997, Rig 52 that belonged to Mallard Bay Drilling was towed to a location in the territorial waters of Louisiana, where it drilled a well over two miles deep. After the well was almost complete an explosion occurred killing four of the crew and injuring several others. Seeing that this was a marine casualty in navigable U.S. waters, under existing regulations the United States Coast Guard responded. When the investigation was over the Coast Guard did not find any violations of their regulations and noted it was an uninspected vessel and the operator held an Operator Uninspected Passenger Vessel (OUPV) license. Soon after the incident the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Mallard Bay Drilling for violations
Recently, another weight loss supplement has stepped into the ever-increasing market. This drug, called Stimulife 750, is a supposedly all-natural herbal supplement that promotes weight loss without any effort from the client. Both the parent company – Stimulife International – and various distributors of Stimulife 750 make bold blanket statements such as “Stimulife 750 has everything good and nothing bad,” which set the success of the pill far higher than is possible. Furthermore, these individuals attempting to sell the product use a variety of marketing techniques to encourage purchasing the supplement; however, they provide no scientific evidence to support the claims they make regarding the safety and effectiveness of the product. By appealing to the clients’ desire for a natural and easy way to lose weight, providing pseudo-scientific statements to convey a sense of authenticity to the product, and befriending the client by seeming to care for their best interests, the distributers attempt to woo more clients. However, Stimulife 750 contains many ingredients included in other “unsafe” weight loss supplements and scientific research shows no clear evidence that Stimulife 750 is any more effective or safe as other diet pills.
Standard 1 for the NAEYC professional preparation is “Promoting Child Development and Learning” With the key element “Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs” the artifact in which I choose is the activity plans with adaptions done in the How Children Learn class. In my opinion this activity allowed us to think further than a typical developing child. Adaptions were to be planned for children that are gifted, autistic, and ones that may have speech and language impairment. Being able to plan activities based on the child’s own needs and developmental range is why this artifact fits well with this key element.
The BP oil spill began with the explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit known as the Deepwater Horizon, then operating in the Macondo Prospect Oil Field some 60 kilometers off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana, on April 29, 2010. The leak was capped on July 15, 2010, with a repair to the underwater wellhead ruptured by the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Thus, the BP oil spill lasted for about three months. During this time, roughly 5 million barrels of crude oil leaked from the wellhead into the Gulf of Mexico. The flow rate was not uniform, beginning...
At the end I come to conclusion that BP was not properly prepared for any disaster like that there risk assessment related to project is very limited and even not considered seriously about it for their own progress and putting live of public and employees in danger by not following the standard SOP of particular project. Even after incident happened they try to close their eyes on reality. The company should take this incident as alarm and should implement proper risk assessment for future and also compensate damages on ethical ground and if they counter this situation in good way their loss of bad reputation will be lesser as it predicted to be they should considered their responsibility towards society as well by doing this they not only making other people lives better but also earning good will to their company.
Ensure relevant laws and policies provide support for shelters and related services. Promote protocols and guidelines to support standardized implementation of policies Secure adequate state funding for shelters and related services Integrate practices that promote accessibility for all women, such as: ensuring facilities serve women of all ages and can accommodate girls if needed; sheltering women with children; reducing financial barriers, by providing free services and safe transportation; and creating infrastructure and policies which enable women living with disabilities, in humanitarian settings, undocumented or immigrant women, and those with mental health or substance issues to access services. Provide specialized shelters for
for the workers of the company. All the blame is not due to poor design and construction flaws, but to the oil companies for not teaching the employees about the system. This disaster could have been prevented if the engineers and oil companies were not blinded by their ignorant beliefs that the Ocean Ranger was unsinkable. Citations 1. http://www.canadianheritage.org/reproductions/21050.htm.
British Petroleum (“BP”) is the company that is being blamed for the incident. Employing 80,000 people, BP is an international oil company that puts different technology to use for finding oil and gas under the Earth’s surface. One of the oilrigs, Deepwater Horizon has drilled 35,000 ft. making it to be the deepest drilling of oil and gas (Walsh). Deepwater Horizon was drilling in the Gulf of Mexico about 52 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip. After the explosion, helicopters searched for 11 crewmembers that reported missing. 17 people were injured (BP Internal Investigation Team). A day later, the rig was found upside down (BP Oil Spill Timeline). The cost to clean up the damage is approximately $760 million (Walsh).
Pressure relief valves are used to safely contain pressurized gases and liquids. Throughout the years there has been an increased demand for safety in industrial and other related operating practices. These valves are one of the many devices that have been created in conjunction with standardized design and operating practices, for the provision of this very protection. In the past, vessels that now would obviously require relief valves were heated often resulting in drastic increase in pressure within the vessel. This resulted in an extremely dangerous outcome physically for all the parties involved.
The Deepwater Horizon was a enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 20th, 2010. The spill was around 41 miles long off the coast of louisiana. When it was released by the natural core it traveled and had killed people and injured people's health conditions. Oil escaping the damaged well was approximately 1,000 barrels a day. The oil that had leaked was sealed was a slick extending over thousands of square miles of the gulf.
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The oil rig sank a day and a half later. The spill was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and BP oil disaster. It was first said that little oil had actually leaked into the ocean, but a little over a month later the estimate was 12,000-19,000 barrels of crude oil being leaked per day. Many attempts were made to stop the leak but all failed until they capped the leak on July 15, 2010, and on September 19 the federal government declared the well “effectively dead.”
Herridge, Aaron, Kerwin, Teresa, Lestarjette, Tricia, Schmidt, Mat, and Wohlgemuth, Lara. “The Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing.” Powerpoint presentation. Web. 8 July 2014.
A further look at facts of the incident, analysis of the risk management issues and evaluation and recommendation of BP’s response to the crisis will be presented in this report.
On a Monday afternoon, A couple of friends and I drove about forty-five minutes to El Dorado to see a movie. A movie in which we didn’t know anything about. None of us had even seen the trailer. I sent my friend a link to the movies that were showing at the cinema in El Dorado, and she had chosen Deepwater Horizon solely on the fact she liked the actors that had been cast for the movie. A few of these actors included Mark Wahlberg and Kate Hudson. Deepwater Horizon, as I came to find out on the car ride there, is about the most devastating oil spill in United States history. Since this event occurred only roughly six years ago, I recognized it after my friend called it the BP oil spill. Growing up in south Arkansas, I know many people that work on oil rigs so the spill was something that came close to home. The movie portrays the events leading up to the rig explosion and the aftermath concerning the people aboard the rig.
The Gulf of Mexico spill of 2010 was caused by an explosion on the deep water horizon offshore oil plat form off the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion caused crude oil to gush out into the ocean and can be attributed to both company and ...