Bp Oil Vs Deepwater Horizon

In her book, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, Morris P. Fiorina talks of the lack of polarization in today’s politics. “The “culture war” refers to a displacement of the classic economic conflicts that animated twentieth- century politics in the advanced democracies by newly emergent moral and religious ones” (Fiorina, Abrams, Pope, 2005, p. 2). Fiorina argues that this phenomenon does not exist; her argument under is persuasive for many reasons. I see the following as the main reasons: the first, is that the media portrays more polarization that there is in reality and the second being that Americans are more pragmatic that the advertised.

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she reveals that society enforces strong racial boundaries, and when one is only associated with another of a different race they are labelled as strange and regarded as an outsider. In the story, young Scout Finch learns life lessons from her father Atticus, a lawyer in their small town, Maycomb. Throughout the novel many people disapprove of Atticus for his job since he defends black people and for the way he raises his children to accept everyone no matter their skin color. Scout is often taunted and picked on for her dad’s profession at school and even by relatives; at Christmas time, their cousin, Francis, humiliates Scout for having “a [negro]-lover” as a dad and describes how it “[mortifies]

The purpose of this paper is to examine one of the largest offshore oil spills in U.S. history, BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010. This paper seeks to investigate closely the system and the reasons of failure, to answer the questions behind numerous studies on this accident, Is Deepwater Horizon explosion inevitable? and What can we do to avoid such accidents?

Deep Water Horizon was a nine year old semisubmersible drilling rig that was designed to operate in waters ten thousand feet deep. This particular rig was built by the South Korean company Hyundai and owned by Transocean, on the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors. BP would charter the Deep Water Horizon from March 2008 to September 2013 for deep exploratory drilling. BP would drilling off of the Gulf of Mexico eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty feet below sea level, in five thousand one hundred feet of water.

The oil and gas industry has been a hot topic for most of my adult life. I was newly married when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. I had two brothers working on off shore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico when the BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. The world’s dependence upon oil and gas has created a need to find alternate energy and one of those ways is through fracking. Let us compare these oil disasters and fracking, and first consider how managing ethical risk can reduce accidents, next compare the risk that BP, Exxon, and the fracking industry face to continue to provide energy sources, and finally how ethical leadership can help the oil and gas industry manage risk.

The Oil Pollution Act was established in 1990 in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989. The Oil Pollution Act placed the Federal Government in charge of management and control of oil spills, control of containment, removal and clean up efforts. This law holds who ever is deemed responsible for the oil spill to pay for the damages, containment, and clean up of the oil spill. In accordance with OPA90, an oil spill must be reported to the Federal Government. Upon reporting the oil spill to the government, BP reported that the well was leaking 1,000 barrels a day when it was discharging upwards of 40,000 barrels a day. Every deep-water drilling company is required to have what is called a contingency plan. A contingency plan

The Bp Deepwater Horizon accident was a problem associated with both faulty process safety culture. The disaster that took place could have been prevented if BP would have been committed to safety first. On January 11, 2011, a seven-member commission published a full report detailing the causes of the blow-out. This blow-out killed 11 men and leaked 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. Bob Graham, commission co-chairman, stated that the incident would not have happened if the government regulators would have held BP responsible for world-class safety standards. His findings were critical to the civil lawsuit filed by the United States Justice Department against Transocean, BP, and other companies involved in the spill. Graham demanded

A little over seven years ago, on April 20, 2010, the BP oil company’s actions created the greatest manmade disaster to the environment in the United States history. In the aftermath of this disaster, thousands of marine organisms were injured and placed in life threatening scenarios. Thanks to the spill, the Gulf of Mexico and other parts of the ocean surrounding the gulf was flooded with an estimated amount of 205.8 million gallons of oil (Sakashita). The damages to the ecosystem and other organisms in the environment was detrimental, but the quantity loss of such a finite resource was devastating to the world. Society over uses and wastes non-renewable resources, therefore, should convert to a more infinite source of energy.

BP's Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010 was one of the worst environmental disasters in history, and was also a public relations catastrophe for the company. This case demonstrates that corporate communications and public relations usually function well enough in routine situations, but tend to break down during crises and catastrophes. With BP's Gulf oil spill, just as with the meltdown of TEPCO's nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, and the ongoing bribery and corruption scandal at Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp that occurred at roughly the same time, the businesses concerned suffered from a disastrous loss in public trust and confidence and severe damage to their image and reputation. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) went bankrupt and ended up being nationalized by the Japanese government, while BP's CEO Tony Hayward was forced to resign. In all these kinds of crises, the businesses concerned not only faced adverse publicity, but public criticism by politicians and government officials, criminal investigations and tremendous civil liabilities. In addition, the Gulf oil spill resulted in loss of life and great damage to the environment and public health. Hayward became notorious for his public relations gaffes and misstatements, so much so that he did severe and permanent damage to the reputation of his company. BP's stock valuation fell by nearly $100 billion in three months, Congress and public opinion were outraged, and a moratorium on deep-water drilling was put in place. In

In April of 2010, the Gulf of Mexico ground to a halt. An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit resulted in one of the worst environmental and economic catastrophes in history. Eleven members of the crew were killed, many others sustained serious and permanent injuries. A moratorium on drilling lasted long into the following year. Massive layoffs ensued across multiple business sectors. Many commercial fishing vessels could not leave port, and those that did caught far fewer fish. Oyster beds were destroyed and miles of wetlands were marred by oil. At the time, we could only imagine how pervasive the effects would be. Shortly after the explosion, Arnold & Itkin LLP, a Houston-based litigation boutique, which represented

In the 2010, Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been noted as a disaster with far reaching condition sufficient to impact global economies, marketplaces and policies. The damages from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster could be as much as $12 billion which was predicted by some experts. This would affect coastline industries such as Louisiana’s oyster and shrimp industry, which generate about $962 million in annual retail sales .Prior to that it also resulted to the loss of tourism revenues and a complete wrap up of activities such as swimming, fishing, recreation and boating due to the cleanup efforts, beach closures due to the fear of the long term effects caused by the spill. The impact for the locals would be more severe for those who live

In 1990 president George W. H. Bush signed the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Limitation of Liability Act was amended into law in 1851 and was to make vessel owners liable for incidents; involving cost of everything and one was rarely given any money to help with cleanup, removal, and damage. The oil spills were growing out of control and these accidents were getting very expensive. In addition, causing great damage to our gulfs and oceans. The United States government needed to do or change something and other countries needed to take the same precautions. The OPA made that change. It states that if an oil spill takes place and

On April 20, the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to the largest accidental release of oil into marine waters in history. As a result, a huge loss of money and life was caused and affected serious environmental damage to wild animals and water pollution. BP was accused of their irresponsibility that it took 87 days before the well was closed and sealed. BP’s shares

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Over the years, the media – including print, online, and broadcast – has bombarded the public with apologies made by public companies that have stumbled upon unforeseen crisis situations. As Hearit (2006) mentioned, whether it be a product that is defective and causes egregious harm to people, an illegal scheme concocted by employees of an organization, or an accident that results in the loss of life, organizations are more often than not the victims of their own misdeeds (p.2). For instance, between 2009-2010 Toyota experienced crisis where by acceleration and brake problems led to more than 8.5 million auto recalls (Liker, 2011). Just three years later, General Motors made headlines – like The New York Times – after experiencing a similar