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    the semester we come to the case of the BP oil spill and the fate of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was exploring a potential oil well far out in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 when several problems occurred and the rig ultimately exploded, and the well at the ocean floor failed and began spilling millions of barrel of oil into the Gulf, causing large scale ecological and economical damage to the states on the Gulf. The BP oil spill was the result of “gross negligence”

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    Leadership Styles BP Robert Horton was selected as the new Chief Executive officer in 1989: Horton took the company through a period of restructuring and was accused of a number of poor decisions including inconsistent planning, diversification and subsequent divestments, shift away from its US operations, emphasizing high risk exploration in the North Sea, and continuous downsizing. The result was a demoralized workforce, the company 's first ever reported quarterly loss during 1991 and out of

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    Literature 112-1 17 May 2016 The Major Effects of The British Petroleum Oil Spill The BP Oil spill pumped almost 200 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf of mexico, for approximately 87 days. This became the largest and most devastating oil spill in the United States. The coastlines of Texas, Alabama, Florida, MIssissippi and Louisiana were drastically effected by this horrible oil spill. In the end the BP oil spill negativity impacted more than 16,000 miles of coastline. Even today, oil is

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    Petroleum, now known as simply BP, is a multinational oil and gas company that is headquartered in London, England. On March 23, 2005, a series of massive explosions devastated one of the largest British Petroleum refineries located in Texas City. The blast rattled windows in downtown Galveston, 20 miles away and was even felt in Houston, 35 miles distant. Reports indicated that 15 people had been killed and well over 150 were injured, many of those seriously burned. A BP spokesperson addressed the

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    industries, and oil companies, including BP, strive to reduce accidents and improve safety. But BP, the world’s third largest oil and gas producer, has the worst health, environment and safety record than any other major oil companies, according to Yulia Reuter, (Head of the energy research team at RiskMetrics) Company Background BP is a global oil and energy company based in Great Britain. The company locates and extracts oil all over the world. BP also refines and transforms oil

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    BP is a British global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company, BP is the UK 's largest corporation, with its headquarters in St James 's, City of Westminster, London. BP America 's headquarters is in the One Westlake Park in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas; the company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six leaders. In order to project social

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    throughputs :2,354 thousand barrels per day BP’s Four Core Values BP specifies four core values to express the way the organization does business and help translate the mission into practical action: • Progressive: BP is always looking for new and better ways to conduct business. It has developed a relationship with Ford to build hydrogen vehicles and fuelling stations in California, Michigan, and elsewhere. BP also has reformulated its BP Amoco Ultimate fuel to reduce air

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    in 1870. Royal Dutch Shell was likewise created by a merger between Royal Dutch Petroleum of the Netherlands and Shell Transport & Trading of Britain. The company has annual revenue of over 400 billion dollars. BP was formerly known as British Petroleum, a name it had used since 1954. BP is based in London and has annual revenues of over 300 billion dollars. Sinopec and China National Petroleum are state-owned corporations run by the Chinese government. Saudi Aramco is likewise owned and operated

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    With an astounding 84,500 employees, BP produces 3.2 million barrels of oil per day. With an estimated contribution of $359.8 billion generated by the company in economic value, it 's no . vi secret that BP makes a solid impact, but at what price? The Anglo-Persian company 's disputed and controversial beginning goes back to Persia in 1908. The global entity now has several heritage brands including: Amoco, ARCO/ampm, Sohio, Castrol and Aral. In 2014 BP devised a three-year 10- point plan focusing

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    own workers to their top priorities, therefore people need to know that BP is more focused on profit than safety. Also people need to be aware that there are more safer alternatives for energy than oil. There has been three separate occasions where BP has purposely overlooked there infrastructure, as well as their inspections and the maintenance of their employee’s well being. Even though taking crude oil businesses such as BP out of the picture when it comes to sources of energy would take out certain

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