ESC Rennes School of Business Essay: BRITISH PETROLEUM OIL SPILL AND CRISIS MANAGMENT MEDINA Anna Master of Science in International Finance Corporate Governance Tess Taubler November 22‚ 2010 BRITISH PETROLEUM OIL SPILL AND CRISIS MANAGMENT Introduction Over the time‚ we had seen a lot of enterprises growing‚ disappearing‚ changing and managing different situations and the way that they can handle any problem could be result in a successful history‚ they can learn about it or otherwise
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Executive Summary Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) prevailed in 2009 regardless of the state of the global economy and competition from larger companies. Focusing on long-term growth‚ Occidental aims to increase production and profits by acquiring local and global oil and gas reserves. They maintain their competitive advantage through the development of strong relationships with both local foreign counterparties. This is typically a difficult feat when faced with potential commodity
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Oil sands Issue briefing bp.com/sustainability Oil sands Issue briefing How we operate BP recognizes that we need to produce energy responsibly – minimizing impacts to people‚ communities and the environment. BP’s systems of governance‚ management and operation are designed to help us conduct our business while respecting safety‚ environmental‚ social and financial considerations. Across all BP international operations‚ established practices support the management of potential
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rich‚ but what about the poor people or so called middle class. What will they do if the prices are too high to afford? Petroleum is something that we all need to go from place to place‚ anyways most of us do; four to five years ago‚ when I first came to Canada‚ the gas prices were quite low‚ but in the past 2-3 years‚ it is still increasing up to date. Prices of toasters and petroleum etc shouldn’t increase because we are getting our taxes cut and on top of that our level of price for the gas has increased
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Amma Addai-Donkor | 4774941 | 5) Tari Youkedebah | 4534895 | 6) Karen Elom Adiamah | 4761446 | 7) Seidu Babilo | 4816285 | 8) Obinna Vincent Unaegbunam | 4901536 | 9) Henry Ajieh | 4517245 | INTRODUCTION Currently‚ Delta Petroleum is experiencing swift decline in the in its current oil production. Therefore growth and replacements is its top priority‚ with a focus on the rationalization of 5 upstream assets in different countries‚ namely: Algeria‚ Canada‚ Kazakhstan‚ Mozambique
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INTRODUCTION Background Pioneer Petroleum was founded in 1924‚ through a merger within industrial‚ pipeline transportation‚ and refining fields. PP has evolved over the last 60 years into a company that now also works with agricultural chemicals‚ plastics‚ and real estate development concentrating in gas‚ oil‚ petrochemicals‚ and coal. In 1990‚ PP improved their coker and sulfur recovery facility to make their refining process more efficient and in turn has become one of the lowest cost refiners
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Throughout the duration of this course‚ you will be performing literature reviews and presenting findings on the topic of petroleum. For this specific assignment‚ please do the following: Identify a topic or a problem faced by the global petroleum industry. Once the problem has been identified‚ your goal is to solve it. Provide an overview of the problem and a solution that is supported by current research. Tips for Selecting a Topic or Problem What subject within the global oil and gas industry
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paper tries to evaluate BP ’s corporate governance framework. It tries to identify what responsibilities the Board of Directors and Senior Leadership should undertake before and during crisis management situations. Before the spill British Petroleum is an industry where accidents occur and given the complexities of such an industry‚ it is critical that the Board remain vigilant about company affairs and that it learns from its previous mistakes. This note tries to evaluate actions that a Board
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Pioneer Petroleum Corporation’s (PPC) has been through a diverse amount of changes throughout the years. They were originally were a merger of several different independent firms operating in the oil refining‚ pipeline transportation‚ and industrial chemicals fields. PPC then integrated vertically into exploration and production of crude oil and marketing refined petroleum products‚ but horizontally into plastics‚ agricultural chemicals‚ and real estate development. They decided to restructure
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1. We recognized a pre-tax charge of $40.9 billion in 2010 and a pre-tax credit of $3.7 billion in 2011 as a result of the Incident. The total amounts that will ultimately be paid by BP in relation to all obligations relating to the Incident are subject to significant uncertainty and the ultimate exposure and cost to BP will be dependent on many factors. Furthermore‚ the amount of claims that become payable by BP‚ the amount of fines ultimately levied on BP (including any potential determination
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