Dixie Crouch: Professional Make-up Project
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In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
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16,000 total miles of coastline have been affected, including the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
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Even though the gushing well was capped in July 2010, oil is still washing up on shores, which might cause long-term damages to people living in the area.
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The initial oil rig explosion killed 11 people and injured 17 others.
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President Obama announced that his administration would create a $20 billion spill response fund.
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Responders used 5.5 million feet of boom, a barrier placed in water, to collect and absorb oil.
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Of the 400 miles of Louisiana coast, approximately 125 miles have been polluted by the oil spill.
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A method of treating the oil spill is "in-situ burning" or burning oil in a contained area on the surface of the water, which has negative effects on the environment.
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Over 8,000 animals (birds, turtles, mammals) were reported dead just 6 months after the spill, including many that were already on the endangered species list.
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BP is responsible for close to $40 billion in fines, cleanup costs, and settlements as a result of the oil spill in 2010, with an additional $16 billion due to the Clean Water Act.
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Over 30,000 people responded to the spill in the Gulf Coast working to collect oil, clean up beaches, take care of animals and perform various other duties. As of 2012, the Gulf was still polluted with oil.
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Approximately 50% of all the oil consumed in the U.S. is for the transportation industry.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Facts/Research About Crude Oil and Reference Images
Crude Oil Spas - Azerbaijan
In 2010, the young British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews journeyed overland from Britain to China, spending several months hitchhiking and camping around the shores of the Caspian Sea. Last week, she won the British Journal of Photography's international photography award for her series, Caspian, which focuses in part on the city of Naftalan in Azerbaijan, and its curious trade in petroleum-based therapeutic treatments.
The crude oil produced in Naftalan is famous through the region for its medicinal qualities and has made the city a spa town, where people come to sit in baths of dark brown-black oil in the hope of curing common ailments like rheumatism, arthritis and psoriasis.
O'Hagan, Sean. (2011). Lives bathed in oil: how Chloe Dewe Mathews captured the Caspian coast. Available: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/oct/19/oil-chloe-dewe-mathews-caspian. Last accessed March 2015.
What Happened
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-owned Transocean-operatedMacondo Prospect. Eleven people were never found[6][7][8][9] and it is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, an estimated 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previously largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on 15 July 2010.[8][10] The US Government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m3).[3] After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010.[11] Some reports indicate the well site continues to leak.
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