Essays on Rig

Deepwater Horizon

Synopsis The Deepwater Horizon was an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico owned by Transocean, a U.S owned company that specializes in deep water drilling equipment (Ingersoll, Locke, & Reavis, 2012). The $560 million rig was operated by a crew of 126 people (Ingersoll et al., 2012) roughly 45 miles off the Louisiana coast (Mullins, 2010). On April 20, 2010, the exploratory Macondo well experienced an explosion that not only created one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in U.S. history but killed 11 people (Barstow, Rohde & Saul, 2010). The environmental effects were devastating. It took 87 days ...

1. Introduction Cutting cost has become a priority for many oil companies in recent years. The discussion covers the reason why oil companies are cutting cost and the means that management in oil companies are employing to cut cost. 2. Why oil companies are cutting cost? Oil companies are cutting cost in response to the radical drop in oil prices in the last two years. From 2011 to 2013, the price of crude oil was above $100 per barrel. In 2014, prices dropped to below $100 per barrel but above $90 per barrel. By 2015, crude oil price fell ...

Internal Analysis of Encana

Internal Analysis of Encana

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The oil and gas industry in North America is currently experiencing challenges and transition stage. The increasing need for the environment-friendly and sustainable forms of energy is affecting the industry negatively as more governments and companies are encouraged to use energy with no or low carbon emission. More companies are now developing solar and wind energy and create vehicles that can rely on electricity rather than oil. Such growing trend in the energy sector resulted to lower demand of oil and gas particularly in the North America. Many oil and gas producing countries and companies ...

I. Introduction The Incredibles is a 2004 Superhero computer animation film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was based on comic books and spy films from the director Brad Bird’s childhood. It tells the story of a superhero family forced to hide within society and try to blend in. Led by an altruistic father, they end up in a battle with the antagonist of the story, Syndrome, who appears at first as Mr. Incredible’s number one fan. The overall theme of the movie revolves around unity and family as being the two ...

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The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism. In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

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One of the most widely-appreciated and distinct films of last year, 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, demonstrates many attributes of genderlect theory and its principles in its communication between its male and female characters. Taking an explicitly feminist subtext in its exploration of a group of women (Imperator Furiosa and the Five Wives) overthrowing their masculine oppressors with the help of a pair of supportive male allies (“Mad” Max Rockatansky and the War Boy Nux), the film and its character interactions are explicitly about the need for men and women to communicate more effectively, and the clear benefits ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

The Gulf of Mexico experienced a huge explosion on April 20, 2010, that caused the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killing eleven people in Transocean, an offshore oil-drilling company owned Deepwater Horizon Oil rig leased by BP (The Ocean Portal Team, 2015). The accident posed numerous environmental threats that affected marine life, businesses, and posed risks to human health.

BP’s response towards stakeholder’s concerns

Stakeholders in the oil drilling company raised many issues concerning the issue whereby BP responded positively towards these issues and concerns. Many factors led to the conclusion that BP management was much concerned about the accident. First, BP ...

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Court option is a technique in the court that is deduced by the commitment it has to provide a comprehensive lay out of quality services in the court of law that mostly concern the criminal justice system (King, 2000). Such services maintain the safety of the public by creating new and better opportunities for people and at the same time gives the court other better alternatives to serve the individuals in equality and justice. M/S Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co. is a case in which the petitioner was seeking review of the court of a legal document concerning a ...

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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill started in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the British Petroleum-owned Macondo Prospect. Taking after the blast and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil fix, an ocean depths oil gusher streamed for almost 90 days, polluting the sea water with crude oil and killing off most of the plant and animal life in that ecosystem. Current BP authorities wouldn't remark on the record for this story. Be that as it may, individuals acquainted with within BP's emergency control exertion and outside specialists say at an early stage, BP didn't have an advertising ...

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Apparently the multiple dimensions of environmental management concerns for countries with multi-tiered systems of governance were far less understood approximately twenty five years ago. It was thereby important for the government to impose regulations that have the ability to assess and bypass thornier intergovernmental issues with respect to its ability to protect sensitive environments and introduce strategies for growth and expansion. In this context the term “disaster resistant community” holds good as opposed to “Disaster Resilient Community” and there are very specific issues why Webstar defines ‘Resilience’ as the ability to recover from or adjust easily from a calamity ...

Deepwater Horizon was an oil platform built in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 50 miles from the Louisiana coast and the Mississippi River delta (Department of Justice). Deepwater Horizon was operated by the global petro-chemical giant British Petroleum. On April 20, 2010, the platform caught fire and exploded killing eleven workers on the platform. The explosion also significantly damaged the platform base and foundation. By April 22, the platform crumbed to the sea and sank. Consequently, the pipes the were pumping oil into the platform were severed and oil began flowing in the Gulf of Mexico. By the time ...

According to EPA (2016), environmental management involves the development of systems aimed at reducing environmental impacts of various activities. In the Brundtland commission report (WCED), sustainable development has been described as development aimed at meeting the current needs of the present generation. However, as the current generation focuses on meeting their own needs, their activities should not compromise the capability of future generations to also meet their own needs. Available evidence suggests that the future generation would have challenges meeting their own needs if the current generation fails to adopt sustainable practices. The sustainable development incorporates the triple line: ...