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The British Petroleum Gulf Oil Disaster

Introduction

The Deep water horizon remarked as the colossal oil spill in the history of petroleum industry taking 11 lives and injuring 17 platform workers with 4.2m barrels of oil streaming in the water of Gulf of Mexico (Cleveland, Pp. 1-2). It traumatized the nation with extensive loss to human ecosystem, marine life while hurting Gulf's fishing and tourism industry. British Petroleum, based in London and third largest firm in oil and gas industry was held accountable for the incident.

Causes

Oil spills majorly occur because of leakage of tankers into the ocean whereas, there are several ...