scholarly journals Offshore Oil Drilling in the United States and the Expansion of Cuba's Oil Program: A Discussion of Environmental Policy

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian L. Genaw
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oil Drilling ◽  
Offshore Oil

Decreasing Supplies, Increasing Risks in Oil Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Shearer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oil Drilling ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Oil Development ◽  
Oil Demand ◽  
Offshore Oil

The ongoing, large demand for oil in the United States has helped push oil companies from onshore to offshore, increasing the complexity of the operations and the risks. This has been encouraged by US policy, which has historically encouraged an increase in both national oil demand and domestic oil production. This chapter focuses on expanded offshore oil drilling in the United States and its risks, highlighting the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout. Such events are examples of explicitly “human-caused” disasters that nonetheless can be expected to increase as we resort to lower quality and harder to reach fossil fuels, offering an interesting example of Charles Perrow’s concept of “normal accidents.”

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