BP CASE ANALYSIS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL The world witnessed the largest oil spill in its history in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion occurred in an oil well of British Petroleum and it is estimated that almost 4.9 billion barrels of oil was leaked to the Atlantic Ocean during the first three months since the incident. The oil spill had devastating effects of the economy and environment of America and the company had to face severe criticism from across the world community
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Ethics William, Scott Ethics In the case of BP oil the internal factors that “affect” ethics within management started at the very top of BP. In, the beginning its handling of the deepwater horizon spill was a disaster. Bp was involved in a number of projects at the outset of this disaster in an effort to save; money However at the start there was a lack of adequate communication between top level management and the front office. Bp planned to use cement that was much lighter to cap the well
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unforeseen events at BP we have had to make some decisive decisions to counteract the events of the situation. We have come up with a four step plan to get this situation under control and eliminated. The first step is to stop the leak, the second step is to clean up what has spilled, third is to fix the problem and update our equipment to ensure this does not happen again, and the final step is to setup a wildlife reserve. The first step is to stop the leak. To do this we at BP are in collaboration
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Ethical Point of View The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in April of the year 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. During this disaster, eleven people went missing and have not been found out to this day. The petroleum industry considers the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as the largest accident of marine oil spillage in the history if the industry. The government of the United States of America estimated the total oil discharged during the disaster at 4.9
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Seven years ago, 2010. The BP oil well deep in the Gulf of Mexico exploded at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and left 11 workers dead. The explosion set off the worst offshore oil spill near the Mississippi River Delta and the coasts of Louisiana state. Because of the oil leaking many marine species such as fishes, dolphins, and plants died. Oil spill was noticed on the 4/22/2010, when the BP found a large oil spots began to spread around the Deepwater Horizon. However
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Alumina and BP Introduction Running a business does not come without the existence of liability risk and legal issues. The question posed is what are the liability risks that could lead to legal issues and how will such issues be handled. When legal issues are present in the business sector due to liability issues, more likely than not, others are affected both directly and indirectly by the situation. How the situations are resolved depends upon those involved and the complaint. BP and Alumina
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focusing on the BP oil spill and the ethical concerns that different communities will face when BP (British Petroleum) are operating near them. To begin with, I will first of all be examining the ethical concerns of the communities in which a selected business operates (P4); the company that I have chosen for this last task is BP.plc. On the 20th of April, 2010, the oil rig known as Deep-water Horizon had a major malfunction which caused a blowout; a blowout being a combination of mud, oil natural gas
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British Petroleum is a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. BP is the sixth largest energy company by market capitalization the fifth largest company in the world in regards to revenues. BP is the sixth largest oil and gasoline companies, measured by production and considered one of the “supermajors”. BP is vertically integrated and operates and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refinery
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Oil Spill The disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 was a huge deal to our nation. I'm sure that everyone old enough to understand heard about the oil spill. The spill was very bad, but I believe we got lucky because it could have been even worse than it ended up to be. The oil flowed into the open ocean for over three months, but it was originally thought that it was going to take even longer to stop. A oil spill of that magnitude could severely damage any environment
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people like Gandhi or the Dalai Lama. For this paper, the 14th Dalai Lama’s perspective will be taken to analyze the moral issue. To reiterate, the moral issue in question that will be examined is: should the design engineers be blamed for the BP Oil Spill? There are only two answers to this question: engineers should be held responsible and accountable, or engineers should not be held responsible and accountable. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was known to advocate for animal welfare (). He
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