BP Oil Spill

Louisiana was greatly affected by the Spill, in terms of fishing industries and economical transportation.

The effect depends on where the spill takes place. If on a body of water oil would float having a lighter specific gravity and would cause damage to plankton and other animals living in the upper water zone. The COD or chemical oxygen demand of the contaminate would kill of fish food supplies. Birds would get covered in oil and eventually die due to exposure or oil ingestion. Oil could be carried to shore effecting fish fry breeding grounds, oyster, mussel beds and shore creatures crabs and so on. Oil Aggregates could form and these balls of oil can be carried far and wide eventually sinking to the sea floor.

This is an ongoing event. As of May 27, there has been no oil found on Florida's coastline, but they are preparing for the event.

Your State's Spill Hotline number. These are usually 800 numbers and supported by the State's environmental protection agency.

it may have some effect on the valuation of there properties and my effect wildlife near

There are about 950000 oil wells in the entire world. Of those, 530000 are located in the US!

The entire marine wildlife in the area tends to be affected by oil spills. That means above-surface, surface and below-surface life forms. For example, migratory birds such as northern gannets [Morus bassanus] may be affected by fumes and flames. They also may find their respiratory body parts partially or totally clogged and their ambulatory parts similarly debilitated or destroyed. They may not have access to surface food sources.

Yes.

It will be stopped. The current plan calls for the completion of relief wells in August. The relief wells are the conventional means of killing a blown out well. The blow out occurred on April 20, and it took 13 days to get all the required equipment and approvals to drill the first relief well. It takes 3 months to drill a well to the required depth of 13,000 ft below the sea floor. Heavy drill mud will continously be pump until the well stops flowing. It may take several days before the well finally dies. The well will be filled with cement. I expect the blowout preventer will be removed using the ROV's for inspection.

I can't say everything will go as plan, and if there are unforeseen circumstances, the completion of drilling could go beyond August. I consider this an unlikely event, particularly since progress on drilling has been good.

The top kill was done to try to save some time. It was an unproved method at 5,000 ft of water.

The latest news is that the leak has been stopped.

The appended link lists the contributing factors to the cost of oil sill clean-up. Even discounting the costs loss of good PR and increasing insurance rates the direct costs can vary significantly.

Consider that you lose 1 bbl of crude oil (about 150 L) with a purchased value of $100/bbl. The oil spills into a roadside ditch in a mainly agricultural area and flows with the water. The spill is simple and straightforward to clean up.

You are looking at hiring at least 24 hrs of: * 20 men ($100/hr thru a contractor), * A vacuum truck, backhoe, dump trucks each at ($200/hr) * Waste disposal fees for oils waste @ $200/cu.yd. for 50 -100 cu yds * Ditch restoration and grading * Police costs for traffic control * Soil and water sampling

And then potential fines $1000 to $10000 (+ lawyers at $300/hr for 3 yrs)

If your question is about the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there are 11 workers missing and presumed dead, 17 injured, and almost 100 other workers safely evacuated from the drilling platform.

The media is using a variety of names.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill seems to be the most common name. The name of the rig that caught fire and sank was the Deepwater Horizon. The BP oil spill is also common , but BP has other spills, so BP oil spill 2010 is better. The oil spill from the Macondo well is also clear. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is common, but since there have been others, Gulf of Mexico oil spill 2010 is better.

Recovery of oil is possible at the surface of the water by using skimmers. It is a slow process, and skimming has not been able to keep up with the volumes being spilled. Wave action can make skimming difficult. Oil can be removed through controlled burns if there is sufficient oil to burn (near the location where oil is leaving the well). Dispersants do not remove oil, but help the oil breakdown.

Once an oil spill has reached land, the efforts to remove oil becomes more difficult. They have been able to net out some of the oil in the marshes, but a lot of effort is going into removing turtles that have come in contact with the oil. Oil as it washes up on beaches may be scooped up and placed in plastic trash bags. It should not be touched. BP and the government are working on special protective berms, which should be able to filter some of the oil out, to help protect the marine life in marsh areas.

See related link.

An oil spill is when a pump or boat carrying oil breaks and makes a hole or break which releases mass amounts of oil into seas (depending on how big the hole is). This causes what people call an oil spill.

when oil is spilled in seas and it causes water pollution and makes many animals die.

It affected plant life as well as aquatic/marine life. Sad right?

BP is responsible for the oil spill in the gulf

They are fabricated on land. Typically they mobilized (moved) to location by barges. A jackup rig may be assembled in pieces, with the jacket or the rig structure being installed first, and then the topsides (all housing and equipment that rests on the structure) is installed second, by large cranes. See related link.

A semi-submersible, like the Deepwater Horizon, may be towed by tugboats to its location. See second related link.

Oil collects on their fur and damages its water proof-ness and insulating value causing them to waste more energy trying to keep warm. In addition in trying to clean the oil from their fur they ingest (eat) some of the oil which may be toxic or at the least upset their digestive systems.

This is a very difficult to estimate.

The most directly impacted was the fishing industry. This includes commercial and recreational fishing. I could not find an estimate of how many workers were laid off. Wikipedia gives an estimated economic impact. Many in the fishing industry were hired by BP to use their boats to skim oil, making it difficult to determine the number of lost jobs.

The tourist industry was impacted. People cancelled vacations because beaches were closed. Restaurants reported people feared eating seafood. The number of jobs lost is not easy to calculate, because the country was in an economic recession, and so many tourist spots were going to see fewer customers because of the economy.

Also, the numbers of lost jobs is difficult to determine, because temporary jobs were created to clean up beaches and in other areas.

Finally, jobs were lost as the US Federal Government refused to permit deepwater exploratory drilling. I don't consider this a direct result of the spill, but what the government thought was necessary to avoid further accidents. Some of these jobs will be lost for a long period, as rigs leave the Gulf of Mexico to drill in other locations.

A lot of estimates of the economic impact of the spill on the economy, have been printed in the media, typically in the tens of billions of dollars range. See related link.

april 20, 2010

The BP oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf War oil spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in Kuwait.

This is a very difficult question. The answer is probably yes, because there have been so many spills. Once the oil spill is dispersed into the ocean, after a long period of time, it may be hard to distinguish from oil from a natural oil seep.

The oil spill was roaming every country in my school i heard that from my teachers i really was worried about the people in many different countries and states i was writing a essay and i wrote everything about the oil spill i was very detailed. I have a question " How did the oil roam around the world i really want to know please tell me