In 2010‚ BP encountered two predicaments. The first was stopping a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an oilrig exploded. The second was persuading people that they were doing just so. The company damaged its environmentally friendly image when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010‚ eventually creating the largest marine oil spill in history. Eleven workers were killed‚ an estimated 6‚000 barrels of oil leaked per day‚ and years of irreversible damage
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Petroleum “BP” Oil Spill On April 20th 2010‚ British Petroleum better known as BP had an extremely destructive impact on the environment and the livelihood of those in Gulf Coast area of Louisiana‚ Mississippi and Florida. BP’s Deep-water Horizon oil rig was located offshore‚ 52 miles off the southeast coast of Venice‚ Louisiana. An explosion on the Deep-water Horizon oil rig caused a massive fire that claimed the lives of eleven BP workers. After 36 hours of burning‚ the Deep-water Horizon oil rig sunk
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The BP oil spill‚ more famously referred to as the Deepwater Horizon Spill‚ occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and flowed unmitigated for as long as 3 months. The BP oil spill has fared as the largest marine oil spill ever confronted in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill on the 20th of April 2010 was primarily the result of a gas release followed by an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ in the Gulf of Mexico‚ established on the Mocando exploration well designed for
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection Undergraduate Scholarship 4-22-2011 Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill Aubrey N. Villines Butler University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Villines‚ Aubrey N.‚ "Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. Paper 90. This Thesis is brought to you for free
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simple informative commercial or newscast. My main focus will be on the BP oil spill. The first sociology theory I will compare with is symbolic interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is the use of symbols or face to face interaction. The way that this relates to the BP oil spill is the way that the owner of the company‚ Kenneth R. Fineburg‚ said that he was going to help and compensate the victims of the oil spill. Commercials and speeches were made about his plans to pay back for the damage
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Case Writing Assignment One This paper aims at identifying the communication problems facing BP‚ pointing out the concerns the key stakeholders may have‚ and discussing the steps that BP should use to deal with the key stakeholders. The main communication problem facing BP is failure to satisfy their stakeholders‚ the pubic‚ and the U.S. government. With each failure to stem the flow‚ BP’s communication problem makes the situation worse; BP becomes the target of criticism from all quarters.
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Business Communications BP and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 04-71-100-05 Dr. R. Kobe Meshal Mustafa January 31th‚ 2013 An explosion took place on the Deep Water Horizon on April 20th‚ 2013. I will be discussing the main communication problem that BP faced. First I will discuss the causes of the problem‚ second I will talk about the symptoms. Thirdly‚ I will discuss the key stakeholder groups and the issues they are concerned about. Lastly‚ I will discuss how BP can use the communication model
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AP Environmental Science Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The BP Disaster The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most infamous industrial environmental disasters ever. On April 20‚ 2010‚ a marine oil-drilling dig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion resulted in the loss of human life‚ massive environmental damage‚ and widespread damage to the livelihood of people living along the
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Ethical Issues surrounding the BP Oil Spill By: Angela Higgins December 16‚ 2010 The BP Oil Spill which happened on April 20‚ 2010‚ was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history releasing approximately 185 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf. This event was the result of a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowing out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast offs the Louisiana coastline. Eleven men working on the oil rig platform were killed and
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Questions: What are the environmental implications of oil spills? What legislative policies have been instituted to mitigate the possibility of future oil spills? How are oil spills cleaned up and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each method? What type of research and innovation surrounding oil spills has been done to prevent their occurrence? In order to foster an environment for emerging technologies and higher standards of living‚ the United States‚ Canada and many other nations
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