Major Oil Spills of the 20th and 21st century In 1989 the Exxon Valdez American oil tanker crashed into the Bligh Reef‚ off the Coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound‚ Alaska. The tanker was supposed to turn south after they had reached a certain point‚ Busby Island‚ but because the ship didn’t turn fast enough‚ it collided with the reef. Due to how widespread the damage was‚ 1900km of coastline was polluted. This pollution killed approximately 250‚000 seabirds‚ 2‚800 sea otters‚ 250 bald
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The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill (HSOS) in December 7‚ 2007 spilled approximately 10‚900 tons of crude oil in about 10 km off the Taean coastline in South Korea. Due to the astronomical and irrecoverable damage upon the marine ecosystem and the overall living standards of the residents‚ the oil spill accident has been notoriously named as the “worst oil spill accident” occurred in Korea. Nevertheless‚ though almost a decade have passed since the outbreak of the HSOS in Korea‚ it appears that compensation
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S.O.S.E Script For more than 100 years‚ oils spills have been affecting most of our oceans‚ with a lot of oil pollution. This is a major problem and occurs around most of the world and sometimes in the same ocean a numerous amount of times. Oil spills‚ not only affect our oceans beauty but affect the marine life as well. But sometimes there is no way to prevent oil spills. A majority of oils spills are spilt into the oceans due to harsh water conditions or a hurricane. The U.S. Environmental
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receiving a respectable or bad service. It can be argued that individuals have the rights to make reasonable claims on society or other individuals. 2.0 CASE STUDY On April 20‚ 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field‚ during the final phases of drilling the exploratory well at Macondo‚ experienced an explosion and sank 50 miles off the
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Oil Spills and Its Effects on Marine Life Many people do not realize the impact of the oil spills that occur in the ocean. It is like putting water into a heated oil frying substance. It is quite catastrophic. With all the oil spills that have already occurred it is important to help clean ‚and prevent oil spills from reoccuring. There is indeed a lot of reasons as to why we should clean and help prevent oil spills from happening but here are the three main reasons. First reason being oil spills
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Corporate Social Responsibilities and Law Contents BP Company Info 3 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Event 4 Summary of the Deepwater Horizon Event 5 Stock price before and after Deepwater Horizon 7 Impact on Stakeholders 8 BP’s Oil Spills and Corporate Social Responsibility 9 Inadequate disclosure on the oil spill event 11 Recommendations for BP to get reputation back 13 Conclusion 14 BP Company Info BP is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom
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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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Controlling management Organizational control is defined as the systematic process through which managers regulate organizational activities to make them consistent with the expectations established in plans and to help them achieve all predetermined standards of performance1. There are 3 types of control. Firstly‚ feed forward controls that mean preventive controls that try to anticipate problems and take corrective action before they occur. For example a team leader checks the quality‚ completeness
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BP plc (British Petroleum) February 2‚ 2014 University of Mount Olive Table of Contents Title Page ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………... 2 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………….... 3 External Environment …………………………………………………………………………... 3 Economic Trends………………………………………………………………………… 4 Political/Legal …………………………………………………………………………… 5 Demographics …………………………………………………………………………… 6 Technological Trends ……………………………………………………………………
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Managing and leading are two different ways of organizing people. The manager uses a formal‚ rational method whilst the leader uses passion and stirs emotions. William Wallace is one excellent example of a brilliant leader but could never be thought of as the manager of the Scots! Managers think incrementally‚ whilst leaders think radically. "Managers do things right‚ while leaders do the right thing." . This means that managers do things by the book and follow company policy‚ while leads follow
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