8. BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill
• Access to oil under water is hard and involves
a huge capital investment to get it.
• BP Deep Water Horizon. 20 April 2010. 87
days it leaked. 4.9 million barrels leaked into
Gulf of Mexico.
• Watch from 1.37 here
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9. 2. Uneven Consumption
• Different countries have different
consumption patterns of resources.
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10. Match the country to the current number
of thousand barrels of oil used a day
World 8,625
Russia 84,077
USA 941
Australia 18,686
China 2,695
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14. Why is there uneven access and
consumption of energy resources?
• Factors that influence the access and
consumption (PCTPU);
1. Physical factors
a. Geology
b. Location
2. Cost
3. Technology Video here
4. Public Perception
This results in energy surplus and energy poverty
countries.
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15. Energy Poverty in Ethiopia
• Watch the video here to see what has
happened in Ethiopia.
• How does this energy poverty country suffer
in a way we don’t?
• How has the new technology socially changed
their lives?
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16. TASK
1. You need to use the four main headings
(Physical factors, Cost & Technology, Public
Perception) to produce a poster to explain
how that factors has influenced availability of
energy.
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