BP Gulf Coast Disaster and Recovery INTRODUCTION BP‚ formerly British Petroleum and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company‚ has experienced a lot of ups and downs over its hundred-year history—from nearly bankrupting its founder William D’Arcy to becoming one of the world’s largest energy companies. BP has also experienced its fair share of controversies regarding business practices‚ environmental damage‚ and hazards to workers. It and all other large energy companies have come under fire for releasing huge
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We will go through the BP business context and culture‚ safety aspect‚ organization capability‚ responsiveness and risk assessment aspects of their ethical culture‚ result from the management and caused the disaster. BP Business Context and ethical culture: From the BP management employer aspects‚ they are not follow some mechanical level‚ safety procedure over and ignored which required by Act (e.g. Clean Air Act) over 8 year for their production. At the end the huge explosion occurred in March
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Thesis Collection Undergraduate Scholarship 4-22-2011 Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill Aubrey N. Villines Butler University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Villines‚ Aubrey N.‚ "Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. Paper 90. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access
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Business Communications BP and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 04-71-100-05 Dr. R. Kobe Meshal Mustafa January 31th‚ 2013 An explosion took place on the Deep Water Horizon on April 20th‚ 2013. I will be discussing the main communication problem that BP faced. First I will discuss the causes of the problem‚ second I will talk about the symptoms. Thirdly‚ I will discuss the key stakeholder groups and the issues they are concerned about. Lastly‚ I will discuss how BP can use the communication model
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Assignment One This paper aims at identifying the communication problems facing BP‚ pointing out the concerns the key stakeholders may have‚ and discussing the steps that BP should use to deal with the key stakeholders. The main communication problem facing BP is failure to satisfy their stakeholders‚ the pubic‚ and the U.S. government. With each failure to stem the flow‚ BP’s communication problem makes the situation worse; BP becomes the target of criticism from all quarters. The cause of the communication
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The BP Oil Spill “Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste to sky‚ as well as the earth‚” said Henry David Thoreau on environmental damage. The BP‚ or British Petroleum‚ Gulf oil spill has been widely referred to as the biggest environmental disaster that the United States has ever faced‚ with over four million gallons of oil pouring into the waters off the Mexican Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill occurred in April of 2010. It was‚ and still is‚ the biggest oil spill in all of U.S. history. The massive
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Seunghwan Lee Professor Poe En 102 11/08/2010 Causes and Effects of Gulf Oil Disaster As the situation of environment is becoming worse than ever these days‚ the explosion of Deepwater Horizon ship has been making things the worst with the enormous damages since this incident happened on April 20th 2010. This disastrous accident happened under the 2nd biggest oil company BP’s poor responsibility. According to this accident‚ about 30 laborers died or got deadly hurt then the ship started to
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BP Oil Spill By: Kerrie Neff MGT 480 Due Diligence: Facts: I am focusing on Tony Hayward‚ former CEO of BP and I am here to address the issue regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and ultimately caused one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. To begin‚ there are many facts that led up to the incident‚ and then for many years after. BP and Hayward had already been questioned on their ethical conduct. The questions include fraud‚ environmental
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Assignment On April 20th 2010 a BP licenses oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded‚ killing 11 people. For three months millions of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico killing sea life‚ altering the eco-system and affecting towns situated around the Gulf’s livelihood and quality of life. The Deepwater Horizon rig is responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in history. The corporation lost billions of dollars due to the disaster stemming for systematic failures across
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The Gulf of Mexico along the Louisiana coast has experienced countless oil spills but unlike those BP’s oil spewed directly from the bottom of the ocean. It is difficult to accurately determine the complete extent of the damage caused by the oil spill because data on the condition of the environment in that area before the disaster is lacking. Even now the effect on organisms such as those in deep-water marine communities is hard to determine. But one thing is certain; the oil spill impacted every
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