OIL SPILL MANAGEMENT Oil Spill Management



Oil Spill Management

Introduction

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also mentioned to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil catastrophe or the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which ran for three months in 2010. The influence of the spill extends since the well was capped. It is the biggest unintentional marine oil spill in the annals of the petroleum industry. (Nuckols, 2010)

 

Oil Spill Management

The spill arose from a sea-floor oil gusher that produced from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The blast slain 11 stage employees and hurt 17 others.  On July 15, the leak was halted by capping the gushing wellhead after issuing about 4.9 million barrels (780×10^3 m3), or 185 million gallons of crude oil. It was approximated that 53,000 barrels per day (8,400 m3/d) were getting away from the well just before it was capped. It is accepted that the every day flow rate weakened over time, beginning at about 62,000 barrels per day (9,900 m3/d) (Nuckols, 2010) and declining as the reservoir of hydrocarbons feeding the gusher was step-by-step depleted. On September 19, the respite well method was effectively accomplished and the government announced the well "effectively dead".

The spill has initiated comprehensive impairment to marine and wildlife environments as well as the Gulf's angling and tourism industries. Skimmer boats, bobbing containment booms, anchored obstacles, and sand-filled barricades along shorelines were utilised in an try to defend hundreds of miles of sandy coastlines, wetlands and estuaries from the dispersing oil. Scientists have furthermore described immense undersea plumes of disintegrated oil not evident at the surface. The U.S. Government has entitled BP as the to blame party, and agents have pledged to retaining the business accountable for all cleanup charges and other damage. After its own interior search, BP accepted that it made errors which directed to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Nuckols, 2010)

The Deepwater Horizon was a 9-year-old semi-submersible wireless offshore drilling unit, a huge bobbing, dynamically positioned drilling rig that could function in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep and drill down to 30,000 feet (9,100 m). The rig was constructed by South Korean business Hyundai Heavy Industries. It was belongs to by Transocean, functioned under the Marshallese flag of convenience, and was under lease to BP from March 2008 to September 2013. ...