Essays on Oil Spill

Being a Marine Biologist is one of the best careers because it allows one to educate others. Recently more and more of our plastic and trash, is being dumped into the ocean. Plastic in our oceans is overall a bad thing because it can harm marine life and the oceans environment. For example, plastic straws are a part of this huge problem with plastic in our oceans. “A field biologist, Christine Figgener and fellow researchers were in the waters off…...

Pollution of lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans has been killing land and water animals for years. Water pollution kills all kinds of animals every year. The EXXON VALDEZ oil spill near anchorage Alaska caused over 3,000 otters to die, 36,000 different kinds of seabirds were killed and over 100 eagles. The Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of crude oil in 1989 because of somebody's carelessness. Oil spills are one of the worst types of pollution. They happen most often…...

Imagine that you are a just a small, ordinary seabird. It is March 24, 1987 and far away from you is an enormous tanker called the Exxon Valdez, coming at an astonishing speed. You do not worry, for these huge ships come along very occasionally in the Alaskan waters. The next thing you know when you turn around is that something wrong. The tanker is heading towards Bligh Reef, which is a mass of granite pinnacles. It crashes into the…...

IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to examine the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster. Specifically, this paper will first consider the facts of the oil spill. What happened? What caused the oil spill? Who was responsible? Could it have been prevented? What were the effects of the oil spill on the environment? Second, this paper will examine changes implemented to prevent a future oil spill. Particular attention will be paid to laws enacted since the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Third,…...

The Keystone XL is the fourth and final phrase of the Keystone oil pipeline that runs from Hardisty, Alberta to as far south as Houston, Texas. This purposed project is almost a duplicate of the first phrase of the pipeline, but has a shorter more direct route and diameter of the pipe is larger. It would start in Hardisty, run through Baker, Montana picking up American-produced crude oil and end in Steele City, Nebraska. The Keystone XL would be 1,179…...

The IssueOil Spills are large-scale accidental discharges of liquid petroleum products which cause pollution along shorelines. The most spectacular involved the supertankers used for oil transport, but many other ship also spill oil, and offshore drilling operations contribute a large share of the pollution. Of every million tons of oil shiped, one ton is spilled. Some of the largest spills thus far recorded involved the tanker Amoco Cadiz which spilled 1.6 million barrels of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico…...

Four minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Eleven million gallons of North Slope oil spewed into one of the most bountiful marine ecosystems in the world, killing birds, marine mammals, fish, and devastating the ecosystem. (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Could It Happen Again?, 2000, May 10) Exxon claims the Sound has recovered, but environmental groups claim otherwise. Who is right?Environmental ImpactThis environmental disaster caused more destruction…...

PURE CULTURE:It contain contain only one organism. Pure culture is always rooted in an integrated culture (multifaceted) by transferring a small sample into a new, basic growth in such a way that it disperses individual cells in a central location or by multiplying the sample multiple times before adding a new sample. Both methods separate the individual cells so that, as they multiply, each will form an inactive colony, which can then be used to enter the middle mass, with…...

IntroductionA safety audit is a general term used to describe an activity where a facility gathers information about one or more aspects of the workplace in order to evaluate the risk levels for health or safety issues. During this audit one or more people will gather data related to the efficiency, reliability, and effectiveness of their health and safety systems. When done properly, a safety audit will help determine if a company\'s day to day activities are in conformity with…...

Oil has been a significant resource to humankind for many years. The number of uses for oil seems almost infinite. Ancient civilizations used it to waterproof boats and roofs and to light oil lamps. Today, it is used for so much more. Oil is currently used for transportation, heat, and manufacturing. Despite these many uses, oil poses dangerous and harmful disturbances to the environment. The United States should not increase domestic oil drilling because it negatively impacts the environment by…...

There are many things in life that are connected to one another. With or without any knowledge of certain topics there is a sense or even instinct, that leads to have a feeling that two or more things are related. Biodiversity has many definitions, but the one, that was mostly used in different papers and I came across was the understanding, that biodiversity is “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic…...

Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that uses principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, and economics to efficiently use, produce, design, transport and transform energy and materials. The work of chemical engineers can range from the utilization of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the laboratory to large-scale industrial processes that convert chemicals, raw materials, living cells, microorganisms, and energy into useful forms and products. Environmental engineering is one the most popular, complex and fast-growing disciplines in engineering. The scope of…...

SummaryThe movie of Deepwater Horizon focuses on the events that took place in April 2010 where the biggest and worst environmental disaster in US history took place. This environmental disaster was caused by the exploration oil rig Deepwater Horizon controlled by Transocean, which was set to begin the drilling operation until Mr Jimmy Harrell, Mike Williams and Andrea Fleytas set out to and go to the oil rig, when they landed on where the operation is taking place, Mr Jimmy…...

Summary of filmDeepwater Horizon is a film based on a true story. It is directed by Peter Berg. It goes on about how the biggest oil blast happened at an oil rig at the Gulf of Mexico. The real life event happened on the 20th of April 2010 however the film was released on the 30th of September 2016. The film shows us the events that happened for the massive fire that lead to an explosion on the rig to…...

Environmental protection is one of the major responsibilities of the government. The state of our environment has a huge impact on the economy and health of our country. It is due to this reason that the government enacts laws and regulations that enhance our environmental protection. Research has revealed that preparing for disasters is vital when it comes to environmental protection. The British Petroleum’s (BP) Gulf of Mexico oil spill is one of the most memorable events that has ever…...

Unethical behavior is doing something wrong when it is known as being the wrong choice but still doing it knowing the consequences. Corporations are a prime example of unethical behavior and when something unethical happens in a company it becomes known to everyone. The BP oil spill was the worst unethical disaster in a corporation ever. This took the lives of 11 people,17 others and caused millions of dollars in lawsuits and destruction. Even years later communities are still suffering…...

Environmental issues are hazardous and problematic effects of human activity in environmental areas. They have enormous impact on climate, land, animals, human beings and whole natural ecosystem. Those affections can make many people die and change whole infrastructure of one part of a land. In this article, it is going to be told about huge environmental disaster which appeared near Mississippi River Delta in Gulf of Mexico in 2010. That was the biggest oil spill in United States history, which…...