BP Oil Spill

to tell u the truth it is a long story i belive it is around 3 month because when th oil spill WA sin th egul fi t took that long so i belive so that yes cuz i f its wrong ask any of your parent slike they are so inteligent so if im wrong look in the internet and get when did it happen and why so this is wat i think an dit was 50 under watwer

It could take the ecosystem years and possibly decades to recover from such an infusion of oil and gas.

It kills all the plants and animals and pollutes the water.If animals swallow it they will become ill and die.It's sticky so when birds get covered in it,their wings stick to their bodies so they can't fly away and hunt.They would die of starvation or because they swallowed the oil.It's horrible even describing it! But at least there are ppl out there that care about animals and help them. :)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency estimates that 5,000 barrels per day began spilling from the rig. This was early on, and they made this estimate based on changes in the colors in the oil spill. See attached link. The estimate is very approximate and not rigorous because human error is involved in identifying colors.

According to BP, it is impossible to make a precise estimate of the flow rate from the blow out. Other experts have suggested that the flow rate may be considerably higher than 5,000 barrels/day as estimated by NOAA, but I have not seen the data to justify these estimates.

The 5,000 barrels per day = 210,000 gallons per day. On May 19, 2010, the insertion tube began to work, and is reported by BP to be siphoning off 2,000 barrels/day or 84,000 gallons per day, so the oil rate may be 125,000 gallons per day.

The weather has been good in the gulf, and there is an intense skimming and oil burning going on, so at the moment (May 21) it is difficult to say if whether the size of the spill is increasing or decreasing.

the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico was actually great Britain's fault because its a british company that was pumping oil for money not for theire own neeeds, but they were drilling for oil to power cars, and actually that same thing happened quite some time ago in California by the same company. but don't worry it is said that the oil pump was stopped from leaking, and alot of people are helping to restore the bech back to normal, so it should be fine.

Yes.

If fact some of the largest spills occurred in Kuwait during the Kuwait war, and during the Iraqi-Iran war. These spills were intentional, so sometimes they are not listed in the history of oil spills. In Kuwait, the burning oil caused widespread air pollution.

In the current war in Iraq, I have not heard of oil spills from wells, but pipelines are frequently attacked, as they run near roads.

Smaller spills have occurred from wells producing in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Kuwait due to human error, and the environmental damage is frequently limited.

By performing genetic engineering, scientists can obtain knowledge about genetic mechanisms in bacteria, cleaning all the harmful stuff such as oil and disinagrates while this genetic engineering helps us identifying certain nucleotide sequences, and to use various restriction enzymes.

Transocean is under contract for BP.

No.

It costed a lot of money and killed many animals.

The truth is... there were around several thousand people who volunteered to clean up the BP oil spill in 2010. There was no distinct number, but all of them were very generous people who donated time and/or money to clean up practically the biggest mess of the 21st century.

Katina P oil spill happened in 1992.

The solar radiation effects on oil causes it to disperse and spread, leaving a thin layer of oil. Salt water doesn't do much to help since oil and water don't mix without certain chemicals that would damage the environment. Therefore the water has a more dense gravity ratio than oil which salt water's is 1.023 to 1.028 than oil 0.79 to 0.84. therefore the oil is pushed farther up and is the cause of the larger oil spill. Hope this helped.

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I don't know what causes more polution but leaking oil makes more damage to the enviroment.

If an alkali spills on your hand the first thing you'll notice is that your hands will get soapy, that's because the fats of the dead cells on the top of your skin are literaly turning into soap, if an alkaly penetrates further it can cause skin irritation(if diluted) or even dangerous permanent burns(if concentrated), that's due to the fact that strong bases react with a very large number of compounds on your skin, they usually are dehydrating agents and they often react exothermically with the water present in your skin. So you should quicky wash with water or with something more appropriate the interested area

Spilling alkali into your eyes, though, is far more dangerous, imagine when some soap goes into your eyes, it has got a pH of circa 8-9, it hurts a bit; now imagine to have a 1mol/L solution of NaOH(a commonly used alkali), it has got a pH of 14 so it's about 100000-1000000 times stronger than soap for your eyes(though this is a rough calculation, soap can contain irritants which aren't related to the pH). This would actually make look your eye like a cooked egg and you'll have a very high probability to lose your sight, if you wash it for enough time with water or vinegar(I know it's not that funny, it's an extreme solution) quickly you may have some chance to avoid serious damages to the cornea. This goes for non-toxic alkalis such as NaOH.

You should always wear protective goggles and gloves working with alkalis because they're really dangerous if misused.

Most oil rig platforms today do not float. The platform is usually positioned atop several pillars that extend to the bottom of the sea bed on which they are located. Newer technology however, has developed barges that contain oil drilling equipment. These newer barges do float but must rely on precise electronics to keep them positioned within a couple of feet about the drill site on the sea bed.

This is the question I have been trying to get answered for the last 60 days,but have been stonewalled over the idea of being payed for oil recovered.

Bp will have a true cost per barrel of spilled oil eventually.

They don't want the oil recovered because they'll have to pay for the recovered oil by the barrel

and there cost of clean up goes up.

Hide it with dispersants and the cost goes down at least for now.

open the door to people with great oil recovery ideas and pay them by the barrel for recovered oil---and watch how fast it would go away---money drives everything

Put every shrimp boat captain and his boat to work for himself. As it is now Bp decides who's boat goes out and how much they get payed buy the hour.

How do you think it feels for these proud Fisherman to have there lively hood destroyed and then get offered to work, by the hour for a set wage, by the people that destroyed it.

Mark Ruberg

Jay Tool J5 Oil Capture Systems

513 353 1245

Was anyone hurt by the oil spill? realllyyy.... Towns are getting ruined along the coast, industries getting closed and animal species are getting wiped out by the thousands. That's only some of the effects seen in the first few months!

The BP oil spill is the worst Gulf Coast oil spill (second place is Ixtoc-1 in 1979), but it is not the worse spill in the world. Some consider the sinking of US oil tankers by German uboats to be the worst (~1943) , when summed together. Others would consider the Gulf War oil spill, however this was not an accidental oil spill.

Wikipedia states the BP oil spilled is between 4.1 to 4.3 million barrels. Other websites quote 4.9 million barrels which is the semi-official estimate of oil from the Macondo well, but BP was able to recover 800,000 barrels, so 4.1 million barrels would appear (at least for now) to be the better estimate.

These comparisons are not easy. A spill in the open ocean (as some with some tanker spills) may cause much less environmental damage, than the BP spill. Also, BP was able to skim, burn and disperse some of the spilled oil.

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Oil infrastructure development in Alaska can affect the animals directly, or by impacting their ecosystems indeirectly. The populations most obviously at risk would be the Porcupine Caribou, and the Polar Bear. Drilling within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in particular the 1002 area would cause potentially irreversable development associated with the drilling industrial complexes. The 1002 area is the only place that the caribou come to give birth in the spring. Muskoxen are another prey species that is abundant around the areas being considered for oil development. If too much presence of a predator species such as ourselves is recognized by the herd they may run leaving behind calves and go into defensive positions. The increased disturbance results in displacement of animals from prefered ecosystems and therefore increased energy requirements ultimately lowering calf production and incidence of predation. Development in the area 1002 area may result in numerous production sites spread out connected by a network of roads, pipelines, power plants, processing facilities, loading docks, housing, airstrips, gravel pits, and utility lines. All of this associated development with drilling has environmental consequences such as waste management. Once the power plants, roads, and utilites are established further development may be irreversible.

"Spill" timing: To check and/or adjust the injection timing on a mechanical diesel injection pump: The method will be slightly different depending on the age of the engine. For older diesels, its possible to remove the delivery valve, which greatly simplifies the tools needed. New diesel pumps however, often are phased at the factory, so removing the delivery valve can disturb the phasing of the individual pump plungers. You will need a pressurized fuel supply to overcome the valve pressure. 1) Remove the injector lines and protect them from dirt. Also cap the injectors for the same reason. 2) Take an old injector line, bend it in a 180 degree loop and cut the end off at a 45 degree angle. This homemade spill tube will allow you to see the drops of fuel coming out much easier. 3) At this point, if you have an older engine, remove the delivery valve (dv) from the top of the # 1 injector plunger but reinstall the threaded outlet. 4) Install the spill tube on the # 1 injection pump outlet. With the dv removed, flow fuel into the injection pump inlet. Rotate the engine by hand in the normal direction of rotation until you see fuel flowing continuously out the spill tube. 5) Slowly continue turning until the fuel slows to a trickle and starts to drip. When the drips stop, or are more than 5 seconds apart, stop turning the engine and look at the timing marks on the flywheel. Read off the injection timing off the scale. The stopping of the fuel flow marks the moment when the pump fill port is closed by the injector plunger (end of the filling stage) and the commencement of injection. 6) If you have kept the dv installed, you will need to pressurize the injection pump fill galleries with a small hand or electric pump. This forces the delivery valve open and allow fuel to spill. Continue from step 5 above. Hope this helps.