Category: BP

Table of Contents Summary Plan Do Check Act Reference Summary A study of the failure in BPs safety program identified a number of failures to meet standards that led to the disaster. In particular, incorrect sizes of blowdown drums and incorrect stacks were used contrary to OSHA recommendations, which led to the formation of vapor…

Context of Climate Change and Its Importance The issues related to climate change have attracted a lot of attention and have become a part of the agenda of socially responsible companies. According to IPCC (2014), there is no doubt about human influence on the climate system and its widespread impacts on human and natural systems…

Table of Contents Introduction The BP Oil Spill Disaster in the Gulf Was the BP Oil Spill Disaster in the Gulf Avoidable? Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Oil spillage refers to the release of hydrocarbon petroleum liquid in the environment. This is mainly a result of human activities. It is one of the greatest forms and…

Described as one of the greatest environmental challenges in current generation, the British Petroleum oil spill has come not only at the wrong time for the Obama Administration, but has also severely impacted negatively on the economies of states around the Gulf of Mexico. Critics point out that it could take years to ascertain the…

Table of Contents Introduction Thesis Statement Topic sentence Discussion Bibliography Footnotes Introduction It entirely went awry for British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico on the late afternoon of 20Th April this year when its service provider Transocean was making a hole on a new rig on the Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in which BP…

The oil spill leaking into the Mexico gulf is as a result of the British Petroleum drilling rig which exploded at a rate of five thousand barrels a day. It was reported that about eleven workers died in the explosion that took place on 20th of April (Jones, 2010). The likely cause of the disaster…

What are the main ethical issues and dilemmas Bp faces in this case? British Petroleum faces various ethical issues and dilemmas, which revolve around the idea of transporting the oil to various states and protecting the communities where the pipeline passes through. Most of these ethical issues include environmental issues, human rights issues, social issues,…

As the board chairman, how will you address the issue of the CEOs early retirement and his severance package? When confronted with the issue of early retirement of the current chief executive officer, I will try to dissuade against the idea of early retirement. As presented in the report by Hunter (2), the company does…

Case study (BPs workers) This case study is about BPs Texas City refinery which is the third-largest oil refinery in the U.S. It is regarding the safety of the workers. There was an explosion in the Texas City refinery in 2005, March. The government investigated the causes of a blast at the BPs plant which…

Introduction In the last five years, the infamous deepwater horizon oil spill has generated heated debate across the globe on the sustainability of oil mining activities of the BP Company and other competitors. The deepwater oil spillage begun in the region of Gulf of Mexico and has had one of the worst environmental disasters of…