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  • Oil well drilling
  • Liability for oil pollution damages
  • Offshore oil industry
  • Oil spills
  • Oil pollution of the sea
  • Disaster relief
  • Emergency management
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • BP
  • Ixtoc I
 

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    Definition

    Technique used in the search for petroleum in deposits of the continental shelves.  The drilling is conducted from large, fixed platforms of special design that can withstand all but the most violent of storms.  Areas of offshore drilling in the 1970s included the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Persian Gulf, and shelf areas off West Africa and Indonesia. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

     

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    • What is the environmental impact of additional oil well drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?
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    • Is the drilling really necessary or are there adequate reserves of oil and natural gas available elsewhere?
    • What National and International laws and treaties apply to offshore drilling?
    • How safe are offshore platforms during a hurricane?
    • Will drilling help the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign oil?
    • Compare the Ixtoc I oil spil of of 1979-1980 with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
     

    Reference Books

    Energy: Supply Sustainability and Costs
    Call Number: HD 9502 .E54 2009

    Foreign Oil Dependence
    Call Number: HD9566 .F672 2008

    Offshore drilling: opposing viewpoints
    Call Number: TN871.3 .O338 2010

    Oil: Opposing Viewpoints
    Call Number: HD9565 .O55 2006
    ISBN: 9780737733273

    Encyclopedia of global resources
    Call Number: REF HC85 .E49 2010

     
     

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