Drilling for oil in the ocean is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in recent decades, and many new techniques have been developed to profit from the abundance of oil underneath the ocean floor. While drilling for oil has been around for hundreds of years in one form or the another, the effective extraction of petroleum from beneath the sea floor did not surface until the last forty years.
The truth is that accidents CAN happen, with the main cause being human error, not the technology that is used. These accidents include leaks, spills, blowouts, barge collisions, pipeline corrosion, and explosions.
Although the drilling for oil may benefit a country’s economy, it would harm the marine life in the surrounding area, which would also be damaging to human life for they rely on some of the marine life for food. Basically, although the rigs may provide oil for a country, they ultimately have damaging effects on the food chain.
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