standards through corporate social responsibility in order to nurture a safer and better future for all. Deepwater Horizon To understand the obstacles that petroleum engineers encounter‚ we will first investigate the BP oil spill‚ which had significant ramifications both to the environment and to local communities along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In April‚ 2010‚ the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico experienced an explosion‚ resulting the worst fatal accident in marine
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Sustainability Review 2010 bp.com/sustainability 2 A letter from our group chief executive / 4 How BP is changing 6 Gulf of Mexico oil spill / 14 How we operate / 22 Energy future 30 Safety / 34 Environment / 38 Society Within hours of the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP teams were working to stop the leak. We also acted to minimize the spill’s impact on the environment by containing‚ removing and dispersing oil offshore‚ protecting the shoreline and cleaning up oil that came ashore. And we worked
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How BP failed at crisis communication British Petroleum (BP) suffered a large-scale public relations and crisis communication disaster‚ when an oil-drilling rig accident on 20th April 2010 incurred a spillage of several million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This catastrophic spill has been regarded as one of the most severe environmental damages recorded in the U.S. history‚ causing public animosity and frustration‚ substantially because of inappropriate BP´s crisis communication
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The Economic Impact of the BP Oil Spill In April of 2010‚ a British Petroleum operated oil drilling rig off the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Deepwater Horizon‚ exploded suddenly after high pressure methane gas from the oil well rose to the drilling rig‚ causing it to ignite and then sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. The explosion caused a sea-floor level oil blowout‚ and crude oil was leaked into the surrounding water for three months before a solution was found. After eighty-seven long days‚ the wellhead
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look at the Exxon Valdes tanker spill of 1989. Congress responded with the 1990 Oil. Pollution Act‚ which assigned liability for cleanup costs to companies responsible for major spills and also required thicker oil-tanker hulls. And while the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in a far greater body of water‚ it ’s also much closer to densely populated areas. That ’s why this spill is sure to prompt new safety‚ oversight and liability regulations for offshore oil drilling--and has already undercut Obama
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On April 4‚ 2010 a huge explosion of the Deep Horizon oil rig occurred in the Gulf of Mexico Near Louisiana. Fifteen out the of one hundred fifty men who were on board were injured. Approximately two days later‚ the rig sang and oil began spewing. The oil leaked for over one hundred days. The BP oil disaster in the gulf has posed a threat on the people and the environment that surround the oil spill. The effects of offshore drilling can be catastrophic‚ especially after seeing what has happened in
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Background statistics‚ introduce what this report will be on‚ and present a few maps. Present the areas this report covers to answer the question We must look at previous/current examples of human impact to work out solutions for the future Deepwater Horizon oil spill- mostly done as of 23/10 Overfishing in Australia- still needs more info as of 23/10 Background Statistics: According to a 2008 report the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis‚ over 40% of the world’s ocean at that
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Bibliography: Balmer‚ J. M. T.‚ 2010. The BP Deepwater Horizon Debacle and corporate brand exuberance. Journal of Brand Management‚18(2)‚ pp. 97-104. Banerjee‚ S. B.‚ 2010. Governing the global corporation: A critical prespective. Business Ethics Quarterly‚ 20(2)‚ pp265-274. Bean‚ J.‚ 2010. BP: Delivering
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BP plc (British Petroleum) February 2‚ 2014 University of Mount Olive Table of Contents Title Page ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………... 2 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………….... 3 External Environment …………………………………………………………………………... 3 Economic Trends………………………………………………………………………… 4 Political/Legal …………………………………………………………………………… 5 Demographics …………………………………………………………………………… 6 Technological Trends ……………………………………………………………………
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Pollution: The Gulf Oil Spill Stephanie Wolf University of Phoenix ENV/100 Principles of Environmental Science Cyraj El-Bakoush On April 20‚ 2010‚ BP’s oil rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico‚ killing 11 people and unleashing more than 200 million gallons of oil into the water (Sakashita‚ N.D.). The spill oiled more than 1‚000 miles of shoreline and a study from the Center for Biological Diversity shows
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