BP Oil Spill

Yes. It is spilling and a portion of the spill is being captured by the marine riser and cap system. BP has stated that this system is not capturing all the oil.

Yes.

Specific to the BP spill, I feel that it is a very remote possibility at this point. There was an article recently that oil was found "inland" in Florida, but to go any distance inland is very difficult as the fresh water streams and rivers all flow outwards to the Gulf and Atlantic ocean.

I don't know of any case where an offshore oil spill (tanker accident, offshore blow-outs) contaminate groundwater. There have been some oil spills as a result of war (Iran-Iraq war, Nigerian civil war, Angola, Gulf war) where some groundwater conamination could be possible.

Groundwater contamination does occur from oil and other hazardous chemicals seeping into the ground and ultimately contaminating the aquifer. There are numerous cases of leakage from leaking storage tanks, settling pits, pipelines and water injection wells (all related to the oil industry) causing groundwater contamination. Gasoline station storage tanks leakage can cause groundwater contamination.

Of course, within the US, any activity that results in contamination of drinking water sources, will be immediately shut down. Gas stations are under strict federal regulations as to the specifications of gasoline storage tanks.

arco and amoco

somewhere around five thousand feet below the surface.

Highest pressure in oil well

The British Petroleum Oil Company is a foreign-owned company that operates in the United States of America. Specifically, it's the largest non-U.S. company on the New York Stock Exchange. Its operations extend to six out of seven continents.

No, they are two completely separate and competing oil companies.

The spilled volume numbers as of June 9, given here are subject to revision. The Joint Command has stated that the task force is busy updating their numbers.

What I can say without ambiguity, is that oil has been flowing into the Gulf for 11 days in April, 31 days in May and 9 days in June, or 51 days. Also, there are 42 gallons in a barrel.

So, total rate = 51 x average rate. Yet, the average rate has been changing as BP has been fighting this blow out. So, I don't have any official tally and as far as I can tell, there isn't one at present. The media seems to prefer to use the very largest number they can find, to justify the headline, up to X million gallons have been spilled.

Previously, there was a range given by the Task Force using one method, as 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day, and a range of 12,000 to 25,000 barrels per day (bopd) using a second method. Now, the latest rate from the lower marine riser is around 16,000 barrels per day, so, the upper end of these ranges seems more likely.

So, if I assume 20,000 bopd are coming out, 51 x 20,000 or 1020 thousand barrels (MBBL) may have come out. However, there are some notable deductions, because the insert tool was capturing some of the oil and now the marine riser appears to have capture a lot of the oil. Finally, it was estimated that the cutting of the marine riser increase the rate by 20%. So, if I use a rate of 15,000 for 30 days, 10,000 for 15 days, and 4,000 for 6 days, might be a better guess, or (450 + 150 + 24) = 624 MBBL. A lot of this oil has been evaporated, burned or skimmed, so the surface oil may be considerably less than 624 MBBL. Some estimates have been that 40% may eventually evaporate, bringing the total to 374 MBBL or 15.7 million gallons.

So, final answer, subject to change, is 42 million gallons out of the well, but 16 million gallons taking into consideration evaporation and capture.

The jury is still out on this. We believe that BP executives made some very serious mistakes and willfully may have misled people. BP will ultimately be blamed, but many factors including our desire for more oil all come into play.

Demanding so much energy, refusing to allow drilling where it is safer, not exploring alternative energy options seriously, Governmental blunders and profit over safety all are factors.

The latest reports say that BP has bought many of Kevin Costner's oil separation devices after having tested them in extreme conditions with great success.

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.

In writing a report on any subject, you must organize your ideas. Many times, the first paragraph can be the hardest to write. After writing a report, you may want to go back and improve the first and last paragraph.

You might want to write a report on clean up efforts, but you need an introductory paragraph that briefly describes the accident. The when, what, where, why and how are all important. For instance, when did the oil first start to spill? What company was in charge of the rig? How deep was the water where they were drilling? This information should be presented first.

Now if you want to write about the clean up, then write down 3 or 4 ways that oil can be cleaned up. For example, it can be skimmed from the surface by boats. It can be burned using controlled burn booms. It can be picked up on beaches. Now for each of these ideas, see if you can find out more information. What does a skimmer look like?

Or perhaps you want to write a paragraph showing how this and other oil spills harm the environment. You can discuss the various types of marine life and the harm that oil spills can cause.

There are a lot of topics to write about. One topic can be the role of volunteers in the clean up.

Finally, there should be a clear opening and concluding statement. In your opening, remember you are investigating something that is in the news and important to many people. Try to think of why this is important. In your concluding statement, try to think of what you feel summarizes the information that has been presented. You can also add a statement of what you expect to happen in the future.

Good luck.

The two largest shareholders are:-

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd who hold 5.92%

Legal & General Investment Management Ltd who hold 4%

It is spreading to Louisiana, Florida, and Alaska

Because billions of barrels of oil was spilled into the gulf ruining reefs, killing animals, and the amount of oil in the gulf is increasing dramaticly every day. And the worst part is... BP's plans to fix it fail, over and over again, and their plans will continue to fail.

The Spill onto the Washington Mall rally grew out of the collective action taken against BP as a result of the explosion. First, we started boycott pages on Facebook. Then we took to the streets, gas stations, and beaches. After many of the boycott managers got to know each other, we thought that more needed to be done. The rally grew out of those conversations.

We never ask who anyone votes for or what party anyone usually backs. We realize it's time for us to stop seeing each as enemies enemies, and that partisanism is a strategy to keep us divided. All are welcome no matter the background, skin color, age, religion, sexual orientation, family status, disability, gender, or species. Bring your children, signs without sticks, tents, food, and voices.

We will meet on the Ellipse, in Washington D.C., next to the White House, from the morning of September 3rd until the morning of the 5th keeping the president's kids up, sorry girls, with speakers, bands, workshops, the Wall of Shame Gallery of bp posters, kids' tents, tabling and more.

We will no longer take a Washington that is so infiltrated by corporate control that we no longer know exactly who runs this country. We will tell them how to vote on bills, and expect strong legislation that suits the will of the people not wealthy campaign contributors and law makers with conflicts of interests between their money sources and the people. BP, you've become the poster child of corporate waste, abuse, incompetence, greed, and class divide.

Gulf residents have begun evacuating of their own accord due to the health effects of toxic air. Let's go for them, the animals, and the planet.

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I checked today (June 3) on Boots and Coots website, and saw nothing to suggest that they are involved in the clean up. However, they may own equipment that others companies are using.

The 2010 BP oil spill is a current oil spill, south east of Lousiana, in the Macondo Prospect oil field, in the Gulf Of Mexico.

Between 12,000 and 100,000 barrels of oil are estimated to be leaking every day (.5 - 4.2 million US gallons, or 1.9 - 16 million liters)

The oil drilling rig, named Deepwater Horizon, was nearly destroyed after a buildup of natural gas in the oil line. An explosion resulted, causing 11 people to be killed and breaking the pipe sending millions of gallons of oil a day spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.

More than $284 billion

IP stands for Indian Pharmacopeia

BP stands for British Pharmacopeia

USP stands for United States Pharmacopeia

Pharmacopoeia (literally, the art of the drug compounder), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of samples and the preparation of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society. The name has also been applied to similar compendiums issued by private individuals.

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We made a film on what a town looks like 15 years after a huge oil spill, see the documentary on Prince Williams Sound, Alaska.

It's the second film down on our site,

There are some beaches affected by the oil spill. But it's mostly the animals and plants that live on the beaches & in the water that were and still are being affected.

The marine life and the birds that feed there. Most likely.

It is likely a terrorist attack as is the china pipeline now spewing massive amounts of oil in China. Try to find ANY photos on google and yahoo and you will see our corporations and government have done a THOROUGH job of censoring EVERYTHING related to terrorist attack on oil rig, on pipeline and all photos of said spills. Why the huge cover up? Because we are at war. USA can't march through country after country without repercussions. What better a way to bring a country to its knees? Attack its infrastructure. This cap is a joke. The pressure in this field is uncontrollable. The Gulf will soon be awash in the largest oil blow out the world will ever see. Add to that the 27,000 abandoned wells in the gulf all attached to the same oil source and you can see why someone would target something a mile deep with a sub and blow it up. If we lose the gulf, we loose our major food source, shipping port, revenue source its a brilliant attack on a military scale but will cripple humanity. Such is what we get for electing war mongering and oil loving people into our world governments. The sad thing about all this is humanity has the means to live without oil. Using soybean and hemp, wind, solar, geothermal, wave harnessing, tidal harnessing theres enough free energy in this world so that we never need to drill again.