BP's blowout of their oil well, causing an oil spill, is being investigated. The blowout of the well caused 11 deaths and the biggest oil spill in US history. The cement used to seal the well is being investigated. A foam slurry created by injecting nitrogen into cement was used for the well. Some people have disagreed with this choose. An e-mail sent to BP by Halliburton stated that the cement could fail. Test show that the cement was flawed. Many are blaming the design of the well and BP’s decision not to run a test to make sure the cement was set properly as well as the cement.
I think it a shame this happened. I think that when a company could potently be dangerous and could hurt many people, actions need to be done to keep those bad things from happening. Is a serious matter, there is great danger from this. I think we can learn a lot from this event. I think oil wells need to have stricter laws to keep the wells from exploding. We can’t walk away from this without changing something so it will not happen again.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101028/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_cement
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