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Why is it difficult to clean up the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill?
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∙ 13y ago
Oil spills are difficult to clean up in general. If oil spills from a tanker, the most oil than can go into the water body is the volume of oil in a tanker. However in this case, the well is producing approximately 5,000 barrels of oil per day (210,000 gallons). So, even mobilizing everything available to control the spill, oil booms, skimmers, use of dispersants, controlled burns, more oil keeps leaving the well. The large canopy that they are preparing to put over the well is not the final solution, but it should reduce the rate of oil that is entering the gulf waters. It should mitigate the damage. It is necessary to kill the blown out well, and BP is in the process of drilling two relief wells.
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What are some ways that they have tried to clean the oil spill?
The US Coast Guard has used several tactics to clean the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. One of them involves using containment buoys to trap the oil from spreading. Another way they have tried to clean it up is using ultra absorbent hair-like ropes that soak up the oil.
What are the solutions to the gulf oil spill?
Sack all the management of BP and change the engineers in charge of the job. There are others who have the answers to this monumental problem.
Is Gulf Engineering Council fake or real?
Gulf Engineering Council is Fake for sure !
What are cause and effect essay topics?
Cause and effect topics, simply put, are topics that cover an issue that can have consequences. These are the kind of issues where one event leads to another. For example, take the oil spill in the Gulf, the cause was an explosion of a part of the rig, the effect, massive amounts of oil leaks out into the open ocean. There are tons of example for cause and effect, they can be as simple as knocking over a row of dominoes. The cause is you knocking them down, the effect, they all fall down.
What is the deepest oil well?
Answer34,200' in the Gulf of Mexico35055 feet in Gulf of Mexico plus 4000 feet of water above the sea floor. From Associated Press article by Chris Kahn Sept. 3, 2009 in Topeka Capital-Journal
How much money was spent on clean up in the gulf oil spill?
$14,000,000,000 was spent to clean up the oil
Who has to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Transocean, which is under contract for BP has to do it.
How many boats are out trying to clean up the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico?
Not enough
What was one of the first tools deployed to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Booms
Is the BP Spill in the gulf stream and will it impact the northern coastline of the US?
yes it is in the gulf coastline and no it will not get to the north bp should have to clean that up
What countries did the Gulf of Mexico oil spill affect?
the oil spill effected Europe a Lot because the people had a scarce amount of clean water
Which companies have been contracted by BP to clean up Gulf oil spill?
Moran Environmental HEPACO
How are you going to clean up the 2010 oil spill in the gulf of Mexico?
They're still figuring it out at this moment.
How long will it take to clean the gulf coast oil spill?
30 seconds with a really big hoover
Effectof the oil spill of the Gulf of Mexico?
The effect of the oil spill in the Gulf will not only not allow us to go to our beaches but i will kill all the animals that get caught in the spill that are not rescued and it will cost gas prices to go up and it will cost lots of money to clean it up.
What was done to clean the oil spill in Louisiana?
There was an oil spill in Louisiana?!?!? Oh yeah..... there is still oil floating around near Florida and the Gulf of Mexico
What is Mexicos major bodies of water?
pacific ocean, gulf of california, gulf of mexico
