1000 Barrel Oil Per Day
26.04.2010 Radikal
The explosion of a oil platform last week in the openings of the US’s Louisiana province turned into the environmental disaster. 1000 barrels per day flow to the Gulf of Mexico.
[[T]]The work for cleaning oil is suspended due to bad weather conditions. The platform named "Deepwater Horizon", where a oil company rents for search work, then buried in waters after 36 hours of the explosion. [ [The company tries to stop leakage by using sea and air tools as well as robot submarine. It can be possible to prevent leakage if the caps of the well are closed. Robot submarines will be certain in the evening, today they can succeed and succeed.
The work of the oil platform under 1.5 kilometers of the sea level is difficult. But according to the account that BP does, 1000 barrels per day exceed the oil Gulf of Mexico.
Dalga is hoped to prevent oil from reaching the coast. Besides the beach, natural life is also concerned.
When the 11 oil workers lost after recovery were killed, the search work was stopped. More than 100 workers discharged after the explosion were saved. The company owner of the oil platform was sentenced to 87 million dollars, as in a refinery in Texas City in 2009.
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