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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in existence‚ which runs from fields of oil sand starting in Canada to the U.S. The Keystone XL Pipeline 2‚000 long would be an expansion of this‚ causing somewhat of an economic issue regarding employment and that would only be the beginning of many issues. TransCanada is the company that has been striving for this project to begin; A connection to Cushing‚ Oklahoma where there is currently an oil jam to the Gulf Coast of Texas‚ where the destination of oil refiners’ are located. The other new add-on
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Act or (NEPA) of. The Law was officially in acted January 1st 1970‚ by Richard Nixon. When the Country cried out for help and wanted someone to step In after a series of major environmental accidents. Off the shores of Santa Barbara a major oil spill destroyed thousands of miles of ocean water‚ and marine life. This wasn’t the only environmental Issues going on. Areas in and around Pittsburg in the late 1960’s had a large smog or dense air pollution that had residents up in arms. Also in
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SCHINDLER’S LIST 1993 A Film by Steven Spielberg “Whoever saves one life‚ saves the world entire.” - Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Babylonian Talmud Oskar Schindler Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler CAST: MAIN • Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler‚ a German Nazi businessman who saves the lives of over 1‚100 Jews by employing them in his factory. • Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern‚ Schindler’s accountant and business partner. • Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth
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The decision making biases greatly impacted the decisions made by those involved in the oil spill. Between both organizations‚ BP and Transocean‚ and there inability to agree and make adjustments caused BP to be publicly criticized. The cognitive bias‚ overconfidence‚ is explained by the Business Insider as being “too confident” about one’s abilities. (Lee & Leibowitz‚ 2015). The worker’s on the rig presented this specific bias when making decisions. When the data examined revealed warning signs
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Present time a person will encounter alcohol based fire where the need of AR-AFFF foam will be used in the event of a tanker fire or flammable liquid spill. The AFFF foam will not serve the purpose for burning fuel spilled due to the alcohol content used in the mixture. The AR-AFFF foam will provide a longer resistance in the event of vapor suppression of non-ignited fuels. The ethanol blended gasoline
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local communities and residents. A PhD recipient from Duke University‚ Dr.Richard Anderson‚ claims that the federal government needs to have certain limitations on national fracking protocol. Otherwise‚ he argues greater environmental issues with the oil and gas industries may arise. Many recent articles and research have agreed with Dr. Anderson in the conclusion that water contamination and greater health risks may occur if the government does not provide a solution. The Texas legislature should ban
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Case Study – Prestige Telephone Co. Company Profile Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to sell computer services. The company was opened in order to bring in additional revenue in order to offset increases in telephone rate increases. Throughout the three years of being
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influential events in all of oil history occurred in Beaumont‚ Texas. The Texas Oil Company‚ now known as Texaco‚ struck oil at a salt dome in southern Beaumont Texas. This was the biggest amount of oil the world had ever seen at the time. These wells on Spindletop would change the way we drilled‚ collected‚ used‚ and sold oil. Spindletop even raised concerns about conserving the oil. This gusher would change the way oil was drilled‚ collected‚ used and sold. The Spindletop oil field produced more than
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SEGMENTATION AND PRESTIGE MARKETS Many American’s today think image explains everything about who a person is. Countless believe that material products‚ status‚ and ways one presents him or herself can tell someone everything they need to know about that particular individual. Numerous psychologists believe this is not good for us‚ however are paid plenty of money to seek deeper into a person‚ nevertheless marketers can have a field day with this subject. The concept of prestige is where marketers
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