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BP Oil Spill
The BP oil spill, also known as the Deepwater Horizon spill, occurred in late April 2010 when a oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and killed 11 people. The disastrous spill gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf and is considered an environmental catastrophe and one of the worst offshore oil spills in U.S. history.
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Why is there oil coming out of a hole in my cylinder head on a 2002 Raptor 660?
The hole is about the size of 1/8 drill bit and blows out on right knee when riding. Sounds like a breather. Should there be a pipe between the hole and the airbox?
How the ocean effects peoples way of living?
In many ways. Coastal countries and islands have the oceans as source of income and food In many cases the oceans and the beaches provide strong income through tourism In health the crash of the waves of the oceans provide negative ions to the air, making it healthier. The climate is more estable and better regulated in coastal areas in spite of the occasional tropical thunderstorm.
Where can I find an engineers report on gulf of Mexico oil spill?
I believe you are asking for a technical investigation report. BP has posted to their website their investigation report, but this will not be the only investigation. The Marine Board is also studying the accident, and conducting an inquiry by questioning the engineers involved in all aspects of rig operations. Their report will be available in January 2011.
The House of Representative- Committee on Energy and Commerce, posted on their site a number of technical reports on computer modeling of the cement that BP used. I have included this link.
There is the Commission established by President Obama, which has not issued any report.
See related links.
Low oil pressure or a faulty sensor. First thing to do is to replace the oil filter with an AC/Delco filter. This is an excellent filter designed for your Cadillac. If that does not solve the problem, replace the oil pressure sending unit. If that does not do it, then an oil pressure test is in order, to determine if the oil pump is faulty.
try a heavier grade of oil it worked for me
Carl-Henric Svanberg is the current chairman of BP, (2010 July 16).
Basically any reason that would upset the normal physical or metabolic rate of the plant.
Examples:
Extremes in heat or cold
Lack of water
Over water
Lack of fertiliser
Excess of fertiliser
Lack of light
Changes in pH
Insect infection
Bacterial infection
Viral infection
Mechanical damage
And of course, old age...
What had the Aztecs prophets said would happen the year Cortes came?
White men would come and destroy the population of the Aztecs.
What does the line eleven mothers cry mean in reference to the BP Oil Spill?
11 crew members died in the initial blast on the rig.
What other companies were involved in the BP oil spill in 2010?
Besides BP, Haliburton and Transocean were major companies involved in the BP oil spill.
Haliburton was responsible for construction of the well including the cementing of the well.
Transocean was the company who's personnel was responsible for operating the well.
Materials can be said to fall into two broad categories - hydrophyllic (they like to get wet with water) and oleophilic (they like to get wet with oil). To clean an oil spill you need a material that likes to get wet with oil, doesn't like to get wet with water and floats in either material. Hay, cellulose, some plastics and many other materials meet these criteria.
Part of the trouble with these materials is that they can start out as good oil absorbers but pick up a lot of crud with the oil that makes it sink. In addition the material has to be put into the oily re in a form that allows easily removable when it reaches its capacity.
Were there problems on the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
Yes, there were problems on the rig that exploded in the Mexican Gulf oil spill of April 20, 2010. Platform workers expressed concern as recently as the preceding month of March and into the very month of the explosive incident. Their concerns were well founded, and the economic, environmental and human costs of the problem are high. Specifically, seventeen [17] workers were injured, eleven [11] platform employees went missing and are assumed dead, and area wildlife has ended up wounded, stressed or dead.
Well i can't define it but I can tell you about it. Let's say you had a factory in England that made cars or had them {like BMW something like that} and you turn it into a company but didn't have them placed in different parts of the world, understand? then that would be a "foreign company."
How much oil was the Deepwater Horizon Platform pumping prior to the oil spill?
No oil. The Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling an exploratory well. It had cemented in the last production liner. The productive zone was supposed to be isolated from this production casing by cement at the bottom and a mechanical "packoff" at the top.
The final steps would have been to set temporary cement plugs inside this last production liner and move off location. Another rig, (a completion rig) would have completed the well later, so it could flow to a production station.
