After the oil spill in the Gulf of mexico in 2010 people are now saying that it can happen again but this time without significant reforms. One key question is, Why didn’t a hulking piece of equipment that sat at the wellhead and was supposed to choke off the flow of oil in the event of a blowout do its job? there are investigators analyzing the blowout preventer at a NASA facility in New Orleans. This is still an on going invigoration.
The oil spill commission said some poor decisions led to problems that led to the accident that killed 11 people and led to more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing from BP’s well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico. BP, Halliburton and Transocean, the three companies involved with the well and the rig that exploded. They each made there own individual decisions that increased risks of a blowout but saved significant time and money.
I think that people should be prepared for oil spills like the on that was in the Gulf of Mexico and I also think that the oil spill in the Gulf of mexico was a good thing not because of what it did because it helps us be more prepared for if something like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico happens again.
