Engineering design and management 1)The oil spill from BP well deepwater horizon

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Engineering design and management

1)The oil spill from BP well deepwater horizon is one of the world's greatest environmental disasters. Nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. As a team, do reach on the following issue (a) The technology of drilling for oil in water deeper than 1000 feet. (b) The causes of the well blowout (c) The short-term damage of the UNITED STATES economy. (d) The long-term effects on the UNITED STATES. e) The impact on the owner of the well, BP global.

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a) with direction drilling technology. reservoirs with a wide radius can be develored from a single platform.

b)Economic Effects

   1.Tourism

2. Fisheries and Mariculture

3.Heavy industry that relies on seawater

c)long term effects:  

e) as per past disasters taken in account the BP owner has to pay compensation as precribed by the court and it has to monitor on the oil spill and necessary precautions and all it licences has to be cancelled temporarily

  

  

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