British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Crisis Made to: Made by: Jakob Lisbet Pals Svendsen‚ Magrethe Mondahl & Zaki Faizi – at IPA/Student Service Desk‚ 12 PM. Oliver Bjørner Søe‚ Kristoffer Thygesen‚ Michael Joachim Simon Aagaard‚ Casper Sylvest Helledi & Ekeløf Jensen – Group Name: Mixed Messages To be handed in: 03/12/2012 Exam date: 18/12/2012 Characters: Course: Corporate Communication Corporate Communication Project Copenhagen Business School Mixed Messages‚ B.Sc.
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April 20th‚ 2010‚ on the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform that killed eleven workers. The spill had already been going on for three months‚ gushing crude oil into the gulf‚ before it was finally capped on July 15th‚ 2010. Even after it had been capped for forty days‚ the people whose environment was directly affected had not yet been notified of any type of oil spill. An article by World Book confirms how the spill was started: “The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform in
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BP was the ªrst of these companies to change from a reactive to a proactive climate strategy formulation. In 1996‚ it withdrew from the oppositional Global Climate Coalition (GCC)‚ which was characterized as the most powerful lobby organization in climate policy.28 BP then accepted the climate change problem as diagnosed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and gave its support to the Kyoto Protocol. In 1998 BP’s strategy formu- lation developed further in a proactive direction
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on how the fire burns down the platform‚ the explosion‚ the chaos. Can we imagine ourselves if we happen to be there at that time? All of this is because of a single blowout. The largest accidental oil rig blowout in the world was during the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion on the 20th April 2010 at the Gulf of Mexico‚ Louisiana‚ United States. The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 16 others. (Slide 4) So‚ what is a blowout? A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil or natural
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BP’s general strategy Oil companies were the worst performing brands in the world market. There was no brand in the oil industry that had created positive perception in the public. During the late 1990’s BP has decided to change this perception for their brand. The main idea was to create a symbolic capital for BP. The definition of symbolic capital is given by (Bourdieu‚ 1974/1977 sited in Holt & McNulty‚2008‚p.76) as “ the resources by which authority and credibility are established amongst
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smothered all over the screen. The child only can only understand one concept: BP was the sole cause of this oil spill. To clarify‚ the child did not learn the real causes for this catastrophic disaster. On April 20‚ 2010‚ the oil rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ causing 3.19 million barrels of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico (Smithsonian). The causes: the crew of the rig‚ trained and owned through Transocean‚ performed dire
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negatively affect stakeholders or sever an organization’s existence. This paper will discuss the role of crises communication in organizations‚ and its relevance in British Petroleum’s (BP) crises mismanagement during their April 20th 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Key words: crises communications‚ crises management‚ British Petroleum 2 Crises Management As a Critical Organizational Management Function Man-made errors and natural disasters have
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Chris Cormier 5-2-12 FINC 3330.01 Corporate Journal [pic] Anadarko’s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by developing‚ acquiring and exploring for oil and natural gas resources vital to the world’s health and welfare. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies‚ with approximately 2.3billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of proved reserves
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BP Oil Spill By: Kerrie Neff MGT 480 Due Diligence: Facts: I am focusing on Tony Hayward‚ former CEO of BP and I am here to address the issue regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and ultimately caused one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. To begin‚ there are many facts that led up to the incident‚ and then for many years after. BP and Hayward had already been questioned on their ethical conduct. The questions include fraud‚ environmental
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NATURAL DISASTER: A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. TYPES OF NATURAL DISASTERS: 1-EARTHQUAKES: An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth’s surface
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