Sunday, June 6, 2010

Oil Spill


Approximately one month ago an horrible accident occurred. In April 20 the Deepwater Horizon (An oil rig) caught fire after an explosion and then sank. One of the biggest reasons of why did it sank was the great distance from the platform to the seabed (1 500 Km.) The ocean currents moved the tube and broke it. The owner of the company in charge of that platform, the British Petroleum Company, has tried many different things to stop the oil spill, but the great distance doesn't make possible those attempts. The oil spill is still going on, if you see at the magnitude of the spill, you will notice that the spill is bigger than some small countries.

Right now the oil spill represents big problems. The hurricanes season is coming and the wind currents will make that oil spill move to the nearer shores (Possibly Mexico and USA.) The BP said it would attempt to drill two relief wells to intercept the oil flow and divert it to new pipes and storage vessels. It said it was also working to fabricate a dome to cover the leak area and channel it into a new pipe to storage facilities. In my opinion, it is really hard to do those ideas because of the distance; but we still have to be positive and think that some day the BP will stop this horrible event. Once that the spill is stopped the BP will clean all the oil from the shores and the gulf of Mexico.

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