BP / Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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Transcript BP / Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill
Prepared by Rusty Sturken
Duluth Middle School
Gwinnett County Schools
June/July, 2010
Image- a view of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico from underwater is from
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform
being transported
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform
Timeline
The Wall Street Journal reported that….
• At 11 a.m. on April 20th BP (oil company leasing the oil
rig) and Transocean (oil rig operator) employees had a
disagreement about how to start shutting down the well.
•
It appears from the article that heavy drilling fluid was
removed from pipes in the well. Removing heavy drilling
fluid prior to temporarily sealing up a well and
abandoning it is normal, but questions have emerged
about whether the crew started the process without
taking other precautionary measures against gas rising
into the pipe.
•
Less than 11 hours after the meeting, the well had a
blowout, an uncontrolled release of oil and gas, killing 11
workers. The platform caught on fire, then sank.
From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268302434395796
.html?KEYWORDS=argument+on+deepwater+horizon
Deepwater Horizon on fire
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Timeline continued
• April 20, 2010 - Explosion and fire on Transocean Ltd's drilling
rig Deepwater Horizon licensed to BP; 11 workers were killed.
The rig was drilling beneath about 5,000 feet of water and
13,000 feet under the seabed.
• April 22 - The Deepwater Horizon rig, valued at more than $560
million, sank and a 5-mile-long oil slick formed.
• April 25 - Efforts to activate the well's blowout preventer failed.
• May 7 - An attempt to place a containment dome over the
spewing well failed when the device was rendered useless by
frozen hydrocarbons that clogged it.
• May 29 - BP said the complex "top kill" maneuver to plug the
well has failed
• June 2 - BP tried another capping strategy
• Early July- “A Whale” superskimmer arrives to help
• July 7- Oil and natural gas continue to leak from the failed Blow
Out Preventer but some oil and natural gas is “captured” and
“flared” each day
• July 12- NBC reported that each day up to 60,000 barrels of oil
escape into the Gulf of Mexico.
Info from Reuters.com and BP.com
Deepwater Horizon on fire
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Deepwater Horizon on fire
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Still picture of video feed from
well location on ocean floor
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Links
• Live video feed from “Skandi ROV1“
• Live video feed from "Skandi ROV2“
• Interactive oil spill map at cnn.com
Oil Skimming Operation
Oil is collected in skimming boom attached to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cypress.
It has been a month and a half in the ongoing
Photo: Flickr/Deepwater Horizon Response
From http://earth911.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Skimming-operations-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-300x199.jpg
Oil-covered Brown Pelican
Image from nationalgeographic.com
A brown pelican struggles on East
Grand Terre Island, Louisiana,
Image from nationalgeographic.com
The costs to wildlife
• The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due
south of Pascagoula, Mississippi, 77 miles
from the oil spill site
• Of the 469 turtles verified from April 30 to
June 17, a total of 360 stranded turtles were
found dead, 37 stranded alive.
• On June 29th CNN reported that the Audubon
Institute was caring for over 100 turtles that
were “oiled”.
• Of the total 46 stranded dolphins, 43
dolphins stranded dead, three stranded alive.
Some info from http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/dwh.php?entry_id=809
Satellite Image on May 17, 2010
From Google Earth per http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/S_
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Satellite Image on June 28, 2010
From Google Earth
The Clean Up
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Deploying oil booms on a beach
in Louisiana
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“Vessels of Opportunity” deploy
oil booms
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Oil booms laid out at Breton
National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana
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The 'A Whale' skimmer, a 1,100-foot ship, converted
into a "super skimmer," has arrived in the Gulf of
Mexico to assist with cleanup of the BP oil spill.
From Reuters?? Image location is http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/
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Free Jimmy Buffett Concert in
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images North America
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Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images North America)
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Free Jimmy Buffett Concert in
Gulf Shores, Alabama
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The Clean Up
• As of June 28th-Two systems continue to
collect oil and gas flowing from the
Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out
preventer (BOP) and transport them to
vessels on the surface.
BP said it would donate 5million dollars
and revenue from oil recovered from the
oil spill to the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation
From bp.com
at http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7063047
The Clean Up
As of June 28th• BP announced that it is now spending 100
million dollars per day on the clean up,
spending $2.65 billion so far
• A 20 billion dollar compensation fund has
been set up by BP
Info from Reuters.com
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