Another environmental disaster that might happen in 2020 would be spills caused by the decision to reduce oil production. Easier said than done. Once oil starts gushing out you can’t just plug the hole again. Nor is there a lot of spare storage capacity so oil producers will be relying on increasingly ramshackle interim solutions.
Once oil starts gushing out you can’t just plug the hole again.
How much oil gushes out? I got the impression a lot was pumped out. All those nodding donkeys with the sun setting behind them in movies must be doing something.
It depends on dozens if not hundreds of factors. Its extremely complicated.
The ability to turn off production has been a mandatory requirement for new wells a long time (decades I think) but accidents happen. Like Deepwater Horizon.
Another environmental disaster that might happen in 2020 would be spills caused by the decision to reduce oil production. Easier said than done. Once oil starts gushing out you can’t just plug the hole again. Nor is there a lot of spare storage capacity so oil producers will be relying on increasingly ramshackle interim solutions.