Unlike other organizations, BP was also changing with the dynamics of today’s business environment and was adopting new business strategies and management practices (BP and Verenium announce pivotal biofuels agreement, 2010). With this changing environment, the company faced an accident in the Gulf of Mexico situated in United States of America where 11 workers were dead. This is one of the biggest failures in the history of modern era, which cost near about 43 billion dollar and is continuing. Due to this disaster, company has to pay huge amount of fine to various authorities. This essay discusses about the situations of the company and tries to reveal what are the reasons are responsible for this failure.
Nuclear power contaminates water supplies. Around the country, there has been cases of water contamination with radioactive substanves. The worl of mining materials used in some nuclear plants, like uranium and titanium, run a very high risk of water contamination to near rivers, streams, and ground water supplies. This would not be good. It would harm more than it would help.
Challenges E xploration and Drilling The protection of sensitive ecosystems or habitat for flora and fauna that may be destroyed during site preparation is a major challenge. Another problem is generally, as the column of drill pipe extends deeper into the earth, drilling challenges including time and their associated costs increase. In addition, the increase in rock hardness and abrasiveness with depth leads to a decrease in rate of penetration with resulting shorter drill b it life, which results is the extensive purchasing of more drill bits. H ydraulic Fracturing Hydraulic fracturing is commonly performed in stages where operators 1. perforate the casing and cement 2. pumpwater-based fracturing fluids (hydrofracture fluids) through the perforation clusters, 3. set a plug 4. move up the wellbore. W ater Resources Drilling requires large amounts of
The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing On the Environment Dependence on foreign oil has long been a concern of Americans. Therefore many arguments have ensued between officials in charge of finding a solution to that dependence. While those arguing had their heads turned, an entity far more menacing than foreign oil began drilling deep into American soil in an effort to gain access to previously unreachable stores of natural gas contained in the shale beds deep within the Earth. That entity is a government sanctioned method called Hydraulic Fracturing or fracking. While fracking does have the power to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, that process leaves the Earth, air, and water contaminated and inhabitable Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) involves a method of injecting water, sand and chemicals into a drilling site, those chemicals have shown to be hazardous to human health and well- being.
According to the investigation report by the U.S. Coast Guard and Ocean Energy Authority, the cement for reinforcing the oil well was the main reason for this disaster. Also, the Macondo well already had financial problems and the monitoring devices appeared abnormal. Indeed, the negative growth in the past meant that the company was seeking money badly. Halliburton and possibly BP decided not to wait for cement stability test results and poorly redesigned the cement mixture. The crisis was caused by their decision, because they underestimated the risk that they might have.
Erich Eminhizer ENGR 310 Final Paper July 18, 2011 The tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a culmination of definable errors and oversights, both small and large, by industry managers, government regulators, and engineers. Each of these failed decisions can be regarded on its own, and new processes, recommendations, or tools developed to try and prevent such a tragedy from recurring. There are many important engineering principles and insights to be gained by this essential exercise. But it is also important, and perhaps imperative, to step back and consider the fundamental ethical question of deepwater drilling itself, for it is from this philosophical germ that all other ethical considerations are derived. Once formed, this foundation serves to inform our notions of “acceptable risk” and responsible engineering, allowing us to set a course for our society in real terms.
Drilling in Alaska Some of the most amazing landscapes I have seen have been out of the Alaskan wilderness, but unfortunately it is threaten by industrial expansionists wishing to drill for “black gold” or Oil. I will be analyzing an essay from 1991 entitled The Great Alaskan Debate: Can Oil and Wilderness Mix? By Timothy Egan. In this essay he writes a well researched topic that has been in debate for years, drilling in Alaska. I will look extensively for example in which Egan simultaneously uses the pros and cons to show that Oil drilling will have a negative effect on the Alaskan environment.
In the late 1990s, CEO Lord John Brown being the first company executive to highlight the existence of climate change spent over $200 million dollars on advertising campaigns to promoted CSR. In 1998, BP took over Amoco, this was the time when the ultimate downfall developed its roots for BP’s strategy was then to minimize the expenses on fixing the worsening Amoco equipment. In the majority of disaster incidents that followed, assets acquired in the Amoco merger were the major cause. Thus BP’s practice, led by CEO Lord Browne, of buying one company after another, firing employees, cutting costs, breaking safety procedures, pumping toxic chemicals back into the ground, using deteriorating equipment were bound to unravel in a series of environmental crimes. BP’s corporate culture aimed at getting rich and encouraging profits was apparent by BP’s firm commitment to fixed dividend policy.
Solariums should be banned Each year over 1 million people around the world the world use solariums. That estimates about 4000 people per day. Using Solariums results in 1 in 6 people get melanomas. In total 7,215 people get melanomas each year, yet we still allow them to be used. What has to be done before we shut down these horrid creations?
Another problem is trash lifted by the tsunami waters from anywhere and everywhere, including debris from the earthquake disaster, has also been released and swept out to the ocean. The ocean’s waves and currents distribute the trash, along with the nuclear waste, throughout the waters, polluting the environment, near and far. Along with the physical devastation of getting infrastructure usable again, Japan is faced with environmental issues and daunting health concerns that must be improved, if not solved. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is one of the largest and oldest plants in the world existing for over 40 years now. It is now facing great threat due to the recent natural disasters.