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Environmental justice and the bp deepwater horizon oil spill. Phototoxicity assessments of field sites in barataria bay, louisiana, usa, and heavily weathered macondo crude oil. Deepwater horizon an overview sciencedirect topics. The effort to contain and control the blowout of the macondo well was unprecedented. View 20 publications on oil spill prevention and response and deepwater horizon available to read, download, and purchase at nap. National academy of engineering and national research council. The spill disrupted an entire regions economy, damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought vividly to light the. Download macondo well deepwater horizon blowout full book in pdf, epub, and mobi format, get it for read on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A systems analysis of the macondo disaster now 0674545230. May 01, 2017 a surge in oil spill response technology projects occurred in the five years following the deepwater horizon dwh.
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May 01, 2017 the 2010 macondo incident in the gulf of mexico resulted in a heightened awareness by the oil and gas industry of the need to ensure an adequate level of preparedness to respond to oil spills of all sizes. Subsea videos captured dramatic images of oil spewing unchecked from the wells broken riser pipe. From april 20, 2010, the day the well blew out, until september 19, 2010, when the government finally declared it dead, bp expended enormous resources to develop and deploy new technologies that eventually captured a substantial amount of oil at the source and, after 87 days, stopped the flow of oil into. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the true. Seaweeds and decapod crustaceans on gulf deep banks after.
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The platform had been attached to the macondo oil well approximately 5,000 feet below sea level. The oil that was spilled in bulk gulf water ended up being diluted and dispersed, however, oil trapped in saltmarshes comprising of plants, plant roots, soil, sediment, and marsh water is known to persist with all harmful consequences. It is the hope of the workshop participants that this report will serve as a reference to advance the understanding of future trustee agency oil spill responders. National commission on the bp deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling. During the 87 days that followed the 20 april 2010 explosion on board the deepwater horizon drilling platform in the us gulf of mexico gom, an estimated 4. In some ways, the disaster at the macondo oil well in the gulf of mexico was well placed. Bp continues to assist transoceans work below the surface on the subsea eqqp, g y puipment, using remotely operated vehicles to monitor the macondo mc252 exploration well. Macondo crude oil from the deepwater horizon oil spill. Final report from the national commission on the bp deepwater. In green macondo oil house experiments, we simulated the most common dwh oiling scenarios by applying weathered and oil spill emulsified macondo oil to aboveground shoots at varying degrees of coverage 0100% or directly to phragmites australis marsh soil at different dosages 016 l m 2. In response to a request from the doi secretary, nae and nrc formed a committee to examine the causes of the deepwater horizon macondo well blowout, explosion, fire, and oil spill and to identify measures for preventing similar incidents in the future.
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