BP is a British global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company‚ BP is the UK ’s largest corporation‚ with its headquarters in St James ’s‚ City of Westminster‚ London. BP America ’s headquarters is in the One Westlake Park in the Energy Corridor area of Houston‚ Texas; the company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world‚ and one of the six leaders. In order to project social
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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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British Petroleum’s Marketing Problem Florida International University Summer 2011 Alex Del Veccio Yudith Torres BP Marketing Problem In April 20th‚ 2010 one of the worst environmental natural disasters that were brought on by a men happened. We are talking about the British petroleum Oil spill on the Golf Coast. The disaster not only affected the plants‚ animals and people living in the area but also the image of the company. British Petroleum has been successful on creating a powerful
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INTRODUCTION Due to the very nature of oil resources‚ the environment is invariably affected. The first way in which the environment is affected by the oil industry is through both the drilling and the transportation processes. The chemicals used in the drilling can be harmful to the environment‚ drilling itself poses a great danger‚ for instance in case of an oil spill (as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill showed)‚ and as the Exxon Valdez disaster so evidently portrayed‚ transportation can be equally
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BP 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)[5][6][7][8] is a massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.[9] Some estimates placed it by late May or early June‚ 2010‚ as among the largest oil spills in history with hundreds of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor oil gusher that resulted from the
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British Petroleum British Petroleum is a company‚ which focuses mainly on petroleum‚ but has some interest in alternative energy. It is one of the world largest oil and gas companies‚ which serves over 13 million consumers in more than 100 countries. The market of alternative energy is not as well developed‚ nor as profitable as oil‚ but it is a good future investment with the recently raising environmental concerns. BP recognized this on time and entered the solar market in the year of 1973.( History
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History When people first started to get involved in environmental ethics‚ the choices were based on “how does it benefit humans”. Most ethical perspectives were anthropocentric‚ human interests at the expense of nonhuman things. Such as clear cutting‚ or burning because we as humans can benefit more from the wood or the land‚ than the animals can benefit from it. The value of nonhuman things would depend on what the human needed the nonhuman thing for. In the early 1970’s some members
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The company was founded in 1908 in which PB stands for British Petroleum and has its headquarter in the UK. Ion 2010 the company was 2nd largest oil company in the world with over 92‚000 employees. The company had to face a dark time in its history when on April 20‚ 2010 the Deepwater horizon oil spill occurred. Through 3 major cracks oil spilled into the ocean. Affected by the oil spill were five states; Alabama‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Texas and Florida. The disaster was if even comparable much
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Original Article Peter has been working with the Bigness Oil Company’s local affiliate for several years‚ and he has established a strong‚ trusting relationship with Jesse‚ manager of the local facility. The facility‚ on Peter’s recommendations‚ has followed all of the environmental regulations to the letter‚ and it has a solid reputation with the state regulatory agency. The local facility receives various petrochemical products via pipelines and tank trucks‚ and it blends them for resale to the
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Mahalia Gauld January 18‚ 2011 MGMT 2850 Case Study #1- Exxon Valdez Situation in Brief: On March 24‚ 1989‚ an Exxon supertanker spilled 11 million gallons of oil while traveling through the pristine waters of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The consequences of this spill were detrimental and continue to affect life today. The oil spill killed thousands of wildlife‚ extensively damaged a portion of the beautiful Alaskan environment‚ and eventually affected the economy to global proportions. Unfortunately
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