Internal and External Factors in Management Lorenita Borrero, Darlene See, Irene Malta, James Ortega MGT/230 June 14, 2012 Devin Daugherty Internal and External Factors in Management British Petroleum is a major world-wide company with a focus on finding energy sources to meet the needs of people everywhere. BP, like its many competitors, operates within the bounds of the four functions of management; planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Management within the BP also has to deal
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The Gulf of Mexico has experienced a tremendous amount of damage through oil spills (Griggs 2011). On April 20th, 2010, British Petroleum’s Macondo had one of the biggest oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico releasing about 185,000,000 gallons of oil (Griggs 2011). It was capped by July 15th, 2010; however it did take a great amount of time to clean up the spill (Griggs 2011). Such oil spills affect the environment in many ways causing long term and short term effects (Kingston 2002). They can occur
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British Petroleum (BP) is a worldwide oil as well as gas establishment whose roots can be traced in British. The company’s headquarters are based in London, United Kingdom. The company has been ranked as the third biggest energy establishment as well as fourth biggest establishment in the world measured by 2011 profits. The company functions in all sectors of the oil as well as gas business ranging from examination in addition to manufacture, purifying, supply in addition to advertising, petrochemicals
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changed forever. The explosion of a deepwater oil-drilling rig changed the lives of millions for years to come. The Gulf of Mexico as we knew it would be changed for decades to come after the mistakes made by the Deepwater Horizon’s crew that day. British Petroleum, the oil giant responsible for the disaster, left the American citizens of the Gulf Coastal region terrified and helpless. There were seventeen men injured in the explosion and eleven unaccounted for presumed dead, while hundreds of thousands
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Assignment 3: Using Teams in Production and Operations Management Brandon Jones Contemporary Business February 12, 2011 The British Petroleum Company, better known as BP, is an oil and petroleum conglomerate that has serviced consumers’ needs since approximately 1909. When it was first founded by William Knox D’Arcy the company was known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (BP Global, 1996-2012). The first few years of business was shaky Winston Churchill believed in its success and supported
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Knox D'Arcy, a Australian-British mining magnate won a concession from Persia to dig for oil. Seven years later, after almost giving up, The Anglo-Persian Oil Company emerged from this discovery and stood in command of what was the greatest oil find of its time. Angelo-Persian oil company as we know it today is British Petroleum or BP "The company made handsome profits through the 1920s and 30s as much of Western society moved toward a world sped along in petroleum-burning automobiles and
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Date The BP Oil Spill Introduction Oil spill refers the condition in which fluids of petroleum flow into marine habitats (IMO 2005). Water pollution is one of the types of pollutions known to be very notorious in controlling. Although oil products are insoluble in water, the method of evacuating oil spills from the water surface, is never an easy task. When oil spills occur, the layer of petroleum formed on the surface of the water leads to blockage of the oxygen mixing with the water, to
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Industry Oil and natural gas, alternative fuels Founded 1909 (as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company) 1954 (as the British Petroleum Company) 1998 (merger of British Petroleum and Amoco) Headquarters London, United Kingdom Area served Worldwide Key people Carl-Henric Svanberg (Chairman) Tony Hayward (CEO) Bob Dudley (Director, CEO (appointed)) Byron Grote (CFO)[1] Products BP petroleum and derived products BP service stations Air BP Aviation Fuels Castrol motor oil ARCO gas stations am/pm
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History of BP NZ The British Petroleum Company of New Zealand was established in 1946. It was 51% owned by the New Zealand Government and 49% by Anglo-Iranian Oil. By 1949, BP began selling petrol in most parts of New Zealand. In 1955 the New Zealand Government sold their shares in British Petroleum to the company and in 1957 the name was changed to BP New Zealand Ltd. New Zealand’s only refinery, in which BP has shares, opened in 1964 at Marsden Point. The 1970s were a time of great change. BP invested
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