Student’s name Professor’s name Course title Date British Petroleum (BP) case study British Petroleum (BP) is a global oil and chemical company with global headquarter in London and United States operation in Houston‚ Texas. BP owns numerous oil fields‚ refineries and chemical manufacturing plants worldwide. It is the largest company in the United Kingdom while BP America in U. S. is the largest BP division. BP operations as of 2013 were spread in over 80 countries around the world. The brands
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Marine Life Encounters A t some point every scuba diver dreams of diving with a whale shark (Rhiniodon Typus)‚ the biggest fish in the sea! Like many divers‚ I traveled the globe for years searching for them but to no avail. I always seemed to hear the same old thing – “you should have been here last week.” In my mind‚ whale sharks were the “unicorns of the sea.” This all changed this past summer with a trip to Isla Mujeres‚ Mexico – a place recognized as having the world’s largest aggregation
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from all around the Gulf. i. They have already have had previous orders from Panama‚ Jamaica‚ and Costa Rico. Mexico and the Dominican Republic are potential new buyers. ii. As off shore drilling comes back after the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill‚ Silver Ships can focus on more oil and gas companies.
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BP Crises Law/531 October 1‚ 2012 The Deepwater Horizon disaster attributed to BP‚ a multinational oil and gas company‚ occurred in 2010 dumping massive amounts of oil in the waters on the gulf coast. The BP is headquartered in London with operations in 80 countries with the largest being in the United States. Team B participated in a simulation that presented a similar scenario as the oil spill mentioned. The company in the
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MGT594 - Leadership and Business Ethics Christiaan Knapp 6/6 Lemnos Street Red Hill Q 4059 Student I.D. 11566493 ASSIGNMENT 2 Submitted April 13‚ 2015. Introduction With the ongoing globalisation of developed economies we have continued to see organisations establish themselves as agents of significant authority and influence within our cultures. This rise in power has bought with it increased scrutiny and led researchers like Burnes (2011) to examine the choices made by leaders within these
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INTRODUCTION Environmental issues are attributed to natural or human activities‚ which lead to deterioration of environmental quality or ecological system disorders‚ and adversely affect industrial production and humans’ daily life. Environmental issues may also result in detrimental effects on human health. There are a variety of environmental issues‚ which can be divided into two categories. One is the environmental problems caused by natural evolution and disasters‚ also called the first environmental
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c.) Professional standards for their discipline: Many different occupations such as doctors‚ nurses‚ engineers‚ accountants etc. are regulated by various forms of professional standards. These standards exist to provide confidence that an employee has the knowledge and training to conduct their job within particular parameters. For example‚ when an engineer signs off his or her approval for the design of a bridge‚ everyone assumes that the engineer has performed all of the necessary analysis to
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petrochemicals items. • Founder: William Knox D’Arcy • Incorporated: 1908 as Anglo-Persian Oil Company • Headquarters: London‚ United Kingdom • Revenue: US$222.8 billion (2015) B. IMPACT OF THE ISSUE In April 20‚ 2010‚ a blast shook the BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig (possessed by Transocean) in the Gulf of Mexico caused due to
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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 occurred to countless
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ocean floor chemicals and toxins come to the surface‚ which are the released into the air. This is a growing concern and should not be dismissed. The Center for Biological Diversity (2010) says that six months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico‚ spilled oil still fouls beaches and wetlands‚ birds and endangered sea turtles continue to suffer crippling effects‚ and the government has yet to deal with the significant risks that offshore drilling poses every day
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