2011 Essential Guide to the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, the Macondo Well Blowout - Including the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Spill and Offshore Drilling (DVD-ROM)

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This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides an encyclopedic collection, updated in 2011, of documents, images, and videos about every aspect of the Deepwater Horizon - BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, with 158 documents from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, including the final report released in January 2011. There is extensive coverage of the initial explosion, the containment and cleanup effort, federal government and industry response, and investigation - along with guides to oil spill cleanup and environmental impacts. This exceptional four gigabyte collection includes over 57,000 pages reproduced in 218 Adobe Acrobat PDF files, many video files in mov and wmv formats, and image files in JPG format. In addition to the comprehensive coverage of the oil spill commission, there is material from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command operation, government plans for restoring the gulf, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA National Ocean Service, NOAA Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the FWS National Contingency Plan, National Park Service, Minerals Management Service (MMS), EPA, NASA, CDC, White House (oil supplemental package, legislative package, establishment of a national commission), and Congressional hearings with industry and scientific testimony. With the leak finally sealed, attention has turned to the investigation of the accident, environmental damage from the oil spill, restoration of the Gulf coast and ecosystem, and the future of offshore drilling. The commission report provides authoritative, official findings on the causes and consequences of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, with proposals for comprehensive reforms of both government and industry practices to overhaul the U.S. approach to drilling safety and greatly reduce the chances of a similar, large scale disaster in the future. Our investigation shows that a series of specific and preventable human and engineering failures were the immediate causes of the disaster, said Commission Co- Chair William K. Reilly. But, in fact, this disaster was almost the inevitable result of years of industry and government complacency and lack of attention to safety. This was indisputably the case with BP, Transocean, and Halliburton, as well as the government agency charged with regulating offshore drilling the former Minerals Management Service. As drilling pushes into ever deeper and riskier waters where more of America s oil lies, only systemic reforms of both government and industry will prevent a similar, future disaster. Backed up by hundreds of footnotes, the contents include: The Deepwater Horizon, the Macondo Well, and Sudden Death on the Gulf of Mexico; The History of Offshore Oil and Gas in the United States; Oversight and Oversights in Regulating; The Macondo Well and the Blowout; Response and Containment; Oiling a Rich Environment: Impacts and Assessment; Recovery and Restoration; Changing Business as Usual; Investing in Safety, Investing in Response, Investing in the Gulf; American Energy Policy and the Future of Offshore Drilling. On April 20, 2010, while working on an exploratory well approximately 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon experienced an explosion and fire, killing eleven workers. The damaged platform capsized and sank on April 22, 2010. The rig was owned by Transocean and under contract to British Petroleum (BP). Oil threatened natural habitats, wildlife, and fishing along the Gulf coast. The Commission found that the Deepwater Horizon disaster was foreseeable and preventable. Errors and misjudgments by three major oil drilling companies BP, Halliburton, and Transocean played key roles in the disaster.

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