Deepwater Horizon Assignment On April 20th 2010 a BP licenses oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded‚ killing 11 people. For three months millions of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico killing sea life‚ altering the eco-system and affecting towns situated around the Gulf’s livelihood and quality of life. The Deepwater Horizon rig is responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in history. The corporation lost billions of dollars due to the disaster stemming for systematic
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AP Environmental Science Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The BP Disaster The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most infamous industrial environmental disasters ever. On April 20‚ 2010‚ a marine oil-drilling dig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion resulted in the loss of human life‚ massive environmental damage‚ and widespread damage to the livelihood of people living along the
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Exxon Mobil External Analysis By: Travis Smith‚ James McKiernan‚ Tom Johnson‚ and Peter Ackley Analysis of the industry This industry is controlled by several large corporations‚ and many smaller organizations. It is difficult to enter into this market because of the high entry barriers. There are many small exploration companies that contract out to the big players of this industry such as ExxonMobil and the members of the strategic group. Some small exploration companies are Continental
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History of Juan Valdez In this section we will introduce the history of the brand Juan Valdez and the corporation as a whole. This background information is necessary for the reader in order to understand the purposes of the analyses that follow throughout our project. Using the brand’s history as our point of departure‚ will lead us to better understand the brand’s current position and contemporary challenges. Ever since 1959‚ the fictional Juan Valdez has been the brand symbol of the National
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TASK I: EXXON MOBIL I/ CORE BUSINESS “The Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil company‚ and was formed on November 30‚ 1999‚ by the merger of Exxon and Mobil”. (Auke Visser 2007) “The Exxon Mobil Corporation headquarters are located in Irving‚ Texas. ExxonMobil markets products around the world under the brands of Exxon‚ Mobil‚ and Esso. It also owns hundreds of smaller
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Exxon Mobil is the largest U.S. Company in the world and it participates in three very profitable industries: Mining/Crude-Oil industry‚ Petroleum Refining‚ and Chemicals. Exxon Mobil is a multinational oil and gas corporation. They have evolved over the past 125 years as a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. Today Exxon Mobil operates in most of the world’s countries and is best known by their familiar brand
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EXXON MOBIL Report by: David Loska Company facts and history: Exxon Mobil is the largest refiner in the world. Since its formation in late 1999‚ through the merger of Exxon and Mobil‚ it has been among the largest companies in the world. In 2005 Exxon Mobil surpassed GE as the largest publically traded company in the world in terms of market capitalization‚ and has been between first and second place in this category with Wal-Mart since then. Exxon Mobil is also the second largest company
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the company Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)‚ which is one of the leading companies in the oil and gas industry. The main focus of the paper is on the income statement of the company and the overview includes the company’s sales‚ cost of goods sold‚ gross income‚ net income available for common and selling‚ general‚ and administrative from the year 2008 to 2012. Business Description Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) is one of the leading companies in the oil and gas industry
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The Gulf Coast oil spill: Extending the theory of image restoration discourse to the realm of social media and beyond petroleum Sidharth Muralidharan ∗ ‚ Kristie Dillistone‚ Jae-Hwa Shin The University of Southern Mississippi‚ United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The explosion of Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon‚ an oil-rig licensed to BP‚ set in motion a chain of unfortunate events that led to BP’s ruptured oil well disgorging millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of
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...................................................2 Was this disaster strictly a BP failure or an industry accident?........................................................................2 What factors affect the competitive environment of the oil industry? ...........................................................2 Question 2 ............................................................................................................................................................4 What were
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