continuous flow. During this lifetime‚ we will not know the amount of damage and problems caused by the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a massive ongoing oil spill and oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico that started on April 20‚ 2010. The spill followed a blowout that caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig‚ which then sank off the coast of Louisiana (Barclay). Tragically‚ eleven rig workers were missing and presumed dead; Thousands
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Somerhalder was born and raised in Covington‚ Louisiana‚ the son of Edna‚ a massage therapist‚ and Robert Somerhalder‚ an independent building contractor. He attended St. Paul’s‚ a private Catholic school in Covington. He embarked on a modeling career from age 10 to 13‚ and by the age of 17 he decided to go into acting In the summer of 2000‚ Somerhalder starred in the short-lived WB series Young Americans‚ a spin-off of Dawson’s Creek. He played Hamilton Fleming‚ the son of the dean of a prestigious
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in Aberdeen. Thirty bodies were not recovered. Gulf Oil Spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20‚ 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform workers and injured
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The loyalty to public safety any employee has depends on their job‚ but there is a minimum baseline. “Do no harm”‚ derived from the Latin principle‚ Primum Non Nocere‚ states that any individual’s well-being is a primary consideration‚ and individual’s should act in society’s best interests. This concept applies to occupations such as law enforcement‚ in which employees promise to uphold public safety‚ and strive to protect the public. However‚ sometimes these promises don’t always follow suit‚ and
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are a big part of pollution in water. The oil spill of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico is noticed as the worst oil spill in American History. Extreme amounts of oil and money was wasted. Within a couple of days of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf‚ underwater cameras showed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas into the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the end of the occasion‚ they figured out that 3.19 million barrels of oil had been sent out into the
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1. Introduction This report will identify a crisis facing BP company‚ the Gulf of Mexico spill‚ and investigate how the organization response to the society. In this report‚ it will use Legitimacy theory to explain BP’s response to this event. Legitimacy theory can be treated as a explanation for voluntary corporate disclosures in annual report. As (Dowling&Pfeffer‚ 1975) says a corporation must act in congruence with norms and society value. First of all‚ Legitimacy theory is based on the
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necessary to combat global warming. Drilling for and excavating fossil fuels has a big impact on the global environment. Oil and natural gas drilling can produce local pollution at the well or while the fuel is being transported. The gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is a good example of the risks of oil
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different governmental agencies have put in place many regulations and policies to make sure that the right measures are taken when building and operating an oil platform. As a result of the recent disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (British Petroleum Horizon) many questions have been raised. Should the current deep water oil well drilling policies regulations and policies be revised? In 1887 H.L Williams drilled the first shallow water offshore well. The drill was placed on a wooden barge extending
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be charged as well. Commonly‚ when a corporation is charged‚ many of the top officers will be charged along with the corporation as an entity. The punishments for a corporation convicted of a crime are typically fines. For example‚ after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill‚ BP paid billions in fines after being convicted of criminal charges. It is within reason that other punishments could be enforced. The corporation could be assigned probation‚ have further SEC regulations levied against it‚ or be barred
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BP is one in six of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. BP stands for British Petroleum‚ but that was not the first name of the gas and oil company‚ it all started in 1908. Explore George Reynold’s went on a mission to find oil in Persia and he did not fail. The mission was actually for a man by the name of William D’Arcy. This oil that was found became part of BP’s first company name the Anglo-Persian Oil Company‚ but that’s not what everyone thinks or knows about when someone says BP
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