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    The key causes of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster are overconfidence bias‚ incompetence‚ poor decision making‚ and ignored warning signs. As years go by‚ good leaders continue to make bad decisions due to certain cognitive biases which inhibit us from viewing problems as they need to be seen; therefore‚ our minds distort information received and make miscalculations when processing the information (Mackin‚ 2010). Since BP was a very successful organization‚ it had grown overconfident in its projects

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    The decision making of multiple employees and managers contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. A non-rational model of decision making was utilized which directly contributed to the malfunction of equipment and the death of employees. The non-rational model attempts to explain how decisions are actually made (Kanicki & Kreitz‚ 2010). The case study focuses on how decisions are actually made rather than how they should have been. Decisions made regarding safety‚ process‚ and collaboration

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    BP’s ethical conduct concerning the Deep Horizon blowout Background: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill or the BP oil spill refers to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. The spill was a result of the explosion of Deepwater Horizon‚ which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. The explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others (Summarized from Wikipedia article on: “Deepwater Horizon oil spill” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

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    Deepwater Horizon Study Group Working Paper – January 2011 3 A High Reliability Management Perspective on the Deepwater Horizon Spill‚ Including Research Implications Emery Roei and Paul R. Schulmanii Abstract Looking back on events leading up to the Deepwater Horizon Spill raises questions about how the Spill is currently portrayed. We run the risk of focusing too narrowly on a sequence of particular events as the main culprit when the accidents and failures that did not happen are

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    World MBM500: Semester 1‚ 2013 Author: Daniel Smith – 5549426 Title: The Analysis of BP and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster of 2010 Due Date: 5/5/13 Word Allocation: 2193 excluding executive summary‚ headings‚ tables‚ references and appendices Executive Summary This report provides an examination into British Petroleum (BP) and the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. It looks specifically at the functional area of organizing from

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    Elizalde Exam Essay 1 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. This spill had a catastrophic on the environment causing extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats as well as killing 11 workers and injuring 17 others. This spill is the “worst environmental disaster the US has faced”‚ according to White House energy adviser Carol Browner. Why did this occur? The staff of the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore drilling

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    The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was one of the worst man made disasters in recent history. Back in 2010‚ an estimated 47‚000 people and 7‚000 boats/vessels were involved in the cleanup process. “It was estimated by a government-commissioned panel of scientists that 4‚900‚000 barrels of oil had already leaked into the Gulf.” (Pallardy) An excessive amount of oil has polluted the region. The government and BP had to take action as soon as possible‚ before the spill reaches further distances. The disaster

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    The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The largest marine oil spill in United States history began on April 20‚ 2010‚ with an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the water over the next 87 days‚ much of which washed up on shore along the Gulf coast region of the United States and Mexico. The accident was the result of numerous shortcuts undertaken by BP‚ and resulted in both environmental destruction and legal action. The events

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    Deepwater Horizon oil spill July 5‚ 2010 Word count: Background: BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and it is the United Kingdom’s largest corporation the fourth largest company in the world (BP‚ Wikipedia). Its name is initials of the company’s former legal names British Petroleum. British Petroleum merged with Amoco in December

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    Kathy Giovinazzo February 12‚ 2011 April 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon well exploded‚ sending oil gushing for three months into the gulf. The explosion killed eleven crewmembers and is probably the greatest environmental disaster the United States has faced. Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1‚470‚000 U.S. gallons per day. On July 15‚ 2010 BP successfully stopped the flow of oil from the wellhead‚ after spilling 190 million

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