BP Oil Spill

It would depend on the extent of the oil spill. If it is a major spill in the ocean then it would cost a bomb.

BP is the short name of BP plc. Before 2001, however, the company was known as British Petroleum plc.

Sometimes simple questions don't have a simple answer.

An oil spill at first is very visible because most of it is floating on the surface as a thin film. Oil is a complex mixture of many hydrocarbon compounds. The lighter hydrocarbon compounds evaporate into the atmosphere. Wave action and biological action (bacteria in the water) act to disperse and decompose the oil.

But these processes (evaporation, dispersion and decomposition) can not be expected to eliminate or make the oil disappear. Small tar like balls of oil will remain in low concentrations, and spread over a large area and well below the surface of the water for years to come.

Exactly how much oil still remains in the Gulf of Mexico is controversial. See related link for estimates.

14 days to clean up the shoreline,after that 10,000/day fine will be levied

currently no

Technically, if you placed the elodea in a bowl full of oil, it can't. however, in an oil spill, it is one of the only plants to survive, if barely. since the roots absorb the oil, instead of water, then in a sense, the oil is reduced.

No, oil has not been found outside of the Gulf of Mexico as of July 9.

Would you put mighty putty to fix a nuclear reactor leak? NO! And please don't ask uneducated questions. That stuff won't stop all those gallons of oil that come out even as I type.

Amoco is a brand owned by BP.

BP bought Amoco Corporation in 1998. The merged company was known as "BP Amoco" until 2001, then changed its name to BP p.l.c. The letters BP do not stand for British Petroleum any more. The company is a global supermajor, headquartered in London, traded in New York and London, with operations on all continents. Most of its U.S. workforce are former employees or Amoco and Arco (Atlantic Richfield).

Under CEO Sir John Browne, BP used the slogan 'Beyond Petroleum', implying an effort to become an "energy company" rather than strictly an oil and gas company.

Other brands owned by BP include Castrol (engine oils), Aral (German network of gas stations), ARCO.

Oil spills can damage natural habitats. The interactions of oil and the marine ecosystem are very important to understand.

Also, the process by which sea water will transform (or weather the oil) is very important as bacteria within sea water play a role. Understanding oil spills requires an understanding of principles of physics, chemistry and biology.

I have included a number of links that relate the study of biology and oil spills. In the Exxon-Valdez spill, the clean up on the shore line used "bio-remediation" - see link.

There is a large range. See related links.

On rigs, the top salaries would go to the Offshore Installation Manager who may also be have the title of Captain. The offshore drilling manager, or senior tool pusher with many years of experience in offshore exploration may make well over 100k/yr particularly if the experience is in challenging areas, deep water, hostile environments (North Sea). The 58k/ yr cited in one reference may be all rigs and all types of drilling.

Off the rig, office based drilling engineers with 10+ years experience in deepwater and subsea design may be making more than 150k/yr. Advanced degrees help in this area.

around $70 billion

Dispersants help to degrade oil into naturally occurring substances quicker. Dispersants can be applied directly to spilled oil, and help to remove oil from the water surface where it is especially harmful. It does so by first breaking the surface oil slicks. As dispersants contain molecules with both a hydrophilic and lipophilic end, these molecules attach to oil, thus reducing interfacial tensions between the water and the oil, which helps break the oil slicks. After breaking the oil slicks, it disperses oil as fine droplets into the water column through natural mixing actions such as wave action and turbulence which dilutes the subsurface oil concentration. This disperses oil from water surface to water column. Afterwhich, oil is dispersed by currents and is subjected to natural processes such as biodegradation, which will render oil harmless.

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I have included the "Matter of Trust" website, which provides all information. Also, I've included a link that says the Joint Operations decided not to use the hair mat. Apparently they are best for shallow water spills.

See link.

An explosion split it in two sinking the whole ship.

As of June 24, 2010; the oil is still gushing from the hole in the ground similar to an active volcano spewing lava, and it's mostly winding up on the beaches of the Gulf Coast of the USA.

Perhaps a better question is, will the oil spill affect whales? My answer is given to the best of my knowledge as of May 27. There have been occasional sightings of whales in the Gulf of Mexico. But the population generally only go as far as the half way down the eastern side of Florida.

As you can oil spill has been limited to the westen side of Florida, so far so good. In time, oil spills degrade and disperse. There may be no environmental impact on the whale population.

On the other hand, there is significant environmental damage in marshes in Louisiana by the spill.

See related links.

No. The Dead Sea is thousands of miles away.

I can not provide an estimate.

In calculation of flow out of a pipe, more information would be needed. Since you have asked this under the category of the oil spill, I assume you are asking what is the flow of oil out a vertical pipe, if the pressure at the bottom is 40,000 psi, and the diameter is 21". You need to specify the length of the pipe and all properties of the fluid. Since you are asking this in relation to the BP oil spill, gas will come out of solution as the oil is coming to the surface (or sea floor) making the calculations far from simple. There are a number of commercial pipe flow simulators.

Again, for the BP spill, a team of scientists and engineers are using pipe flow simulation , if possible, and other methods to estimate the flow.

Legal attestation letter is another term for an affidavit it is a written statement made under oath and witnessed by a notary public, court clerk, or other such authorized persons.

this oil leak is in the Gulf of Mexico

In August 1998 British Petroleum purchased Amoco for $57 billion, and British Petroleum renamed itself BP Amoco. On December 31, 1998, Browne's title became group CEO.