BP

Oil Drilling Regulations British Petroleum(BP) had a massive oil spill on April 20, 2010. In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of eighty seven days, making it the biggest oil spill in United States history. The initial oil rig explosion killed eleven people and injured seventeen others (“11 Facts”). The spill killed hundreds of animal, plant life and destroyed the environment. BP was penalized up to forty billion dollars in…

releasing oil from the oil well into the Gulf of Mexico. BP along with a few of its partners Transocean and Halliburton was involved in the gulf oil spill. The explosion of the drilling oil rig Deepwater Horizon was the root cause of the oil spill. This paper will focus on BP organization behavioral issues such as ethics, culture, and social behavior that caused the economic, environmental, and human losses. The research further focuses on what BP leadership could have done as a precautionary…

who takes an introductory biology class knows that humans create more waste than every other species combined. Much of this waste stems from our selfish over utilization of the resources found here on earth. Results of this can been seen during the BP oil spill scandal. However, waste production occurs even in beneficial establishments like hospitals. Waste is produced in hospitals in multiple areas, such as the cafeteria, used medical tools and toxic materials produced by operations. According…

BP was founded in 1889 formerly known as British Petroleum, whose headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. This publicly integrated organization as of 2017 has a worldwide workforce of 69,900 employees. Globally, BP’s business last year generated $142,598.8 billion British pounds stemming from three main sectors, Upstream, Downstream and Rosneft. These three segments represent an exploration of gas and oil, refineries, manufacturing, markets, transports, supplies, crude oil, petroleum, jet…

The code of Human Research Ethics by BPS lays guidelines for human research ethics in field of psychology for ethics approval process for conducting research and University of Sussex’s generic ethical approval focuses on (human and animal) research isn’t specific to psychology. In BPS Code, ethical issues involved using animals are advised to be addressed by Code of Ethics and Conduct, Guidelines for Psychologists Working with Animals) and HCPC guidance. The Section A of Sussex form lays down…

one such as the BP Oil Spill that can devastate entire ecosystems. Oils spills such as these often leave the large question of who is responsible, or who is to be blamed. While some of the blame should be put on the company in charge, a large amount should also be put on the companies on the inside of the job that made the spill possible. Due to the fact that BP wasn’t even on the rig Deepwater Horizon, the blame for the most part shouldn’t be placed on BP, but on the companies that BP hired.…

The company BP is infamous for the deep-water horizon disaster that happened in 2010, they had multiple chances to prevent this disaster but failed. BP failed to maintained quality standards causing the offshore drilling rig to explode, the first safety quality that was ignore was the pressure from the readings of the pipeline. It was said that the pressure was an error from the readings so the rig continued…

British Petroleum (BP), proposed a plan to drill in the Macondo well to the Minerals Management Service (MMS). The Macondo well is off the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/161185/). BP was looking to expand their oil drilling, which was the motivation for proposing their idea to the MMS. BP reported that it is “unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities”…

British Petroleum referred today as BP has been a household name for many decades and has been in existence for over a century. BP has had its fair share of lawsuits and investigations stemmed form corporate fraud, environmental catastrophes, and ethical dilemmas in addition to the largest oil spill in the history of the world. At times during BP's history the company had failed to protect its stockholders, however, the energy giant became recognized as a leader for good practices in protecting…

large profit oil company, decided to cut costs. Because they were more concerned with money lying within the waters, than the animals who call them their home. A selfish act, some would say, is what took place at BP. An issue that started off local, but lead to global repercussions, the “BP Oil Spill”, better known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, began on April 10th, 2010, and lasted until September 19th, 2010, when the well was declared sealed. Over the course of the 5 month summer, 4.9…