BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Prepared by Rusty Sturken Duluth Middle School Gwinnett County Schools June/July, 2010 Image- a view of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico from underwater is from http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/06/09/gal_oil_spill_03.jpg
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BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Prepared by Rusty SturkenDuluth Middle School
Gwinnett County SchoolsJune/July, 2010
Image- a view of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico from underwater is fromhttp://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/06/09/gal_oil_spill_03.jpg
Timeline The Wall Street Journal reported that….• At 11 a.m. on April 20th BP (oil company leasing the oil
rig) and Transocean (oil rig operator) employees had a disagreement about how to start shutting down the well.
• It appears from the article that heavy drilling fluid was removed from pipes in the well. Removing heavy drilling fluid prior to temporarily sealing up a well and abandoning it is normal, but questions have emerged about whether the crew started the process without taking other precautionary measures against gas rising into the pipe.
• Less than 11 hours after the meeting, the well had a blowout, an uncontrolled release of oil and gas, killing 11 workers. The platform caught on fire, then sank.
From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268302434395796.html?KEYWORDS=argument+on+deepwater+horizon
Timeline continued• April 20, 2010 - Explosion and fire on Transocean Ltd's drilling
rig Deepwater Horizon licensed to BP; 11 workers were killed. The rig was drilling beneath about 5,000 feet of water and 13,000 feet under the seabed.
• April 22 - The Deepwater Horizon rig, valued at more than $560 million, sank and a 5-mile-long oil slick formed.
• April 25 - Efforts to activate the well's blowout preventer failed.• May 7 - An attempt to place a containment dome over the
spewing well failed when the device was rendered useless by frozen hydrocarbons that clogged it.
• May 29 - BP said the complex "top kill" maneuver to plug the well has failed
• June 2 - BP tried another capping strategy • Early July- “A Whale” superskimmer arrives to help • July 7- Oil and natural gas continue to leak from the failed Blow
Out Preventer but some oil and natural gas is “captured” and “flared” each day
• July 12- NBC reported that each day up to 60,000 barrels of oil escape into the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil is collected in skimming boom attached to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cypress. It has been a month and a half in the ongoing Photo: Flickr/Deepwater Horizon ResponseFrom http://earth911.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Skimming-operations-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-300x199.jpg
The 'A Whale' skimmer, a 1,100-foot ship, converted into a "super skimmer," has arrived in the Gulf of
Mexico to assist with cleanup of the BP oil spill.
From Reuters?? Image location is http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/0702-a-whale-super-skimmer/8260935-1-eng-US/0702-a-whale-super-skimmer_full_380.jpg
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