BP Oil Spill: Documenting the Crisis in US Gulf Coast
Publisher: GRIN Verlag GmbH.
Published: June 27, 2014
Place of publication: Germany; [USA Address: GRIN Publishing / GRIN Verlag GmbH 1200 Pacific Avenue Suite 275 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA]
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
Description: The damaged Deep-water Horizon rig not only led to deaths in a workplace, it exposed the failure of a company that probably put profits before people. The unconscionable decisions of a multinational corporation in oil and gas prospecting, its contractors and associated partners led to the deaths of innocent workers. The analysis of events surrounding the accidental explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deep-water Horizon rig added new knowledge to the understanding of risk involved in prospecting for oil and gas in deep and shallow water. BP OIL SPILL: Documenting the Crisis in US Gulf Coast is a piece of this knowledge.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: What this Book is about; title: Issues of Public Concern; title: Arrangement of the Book; title: Questions from the Experience; title: II. Chapter 2 - Challenges of Prospecting for Carbon-based; title: Energy Resource in the US Gulf Coast (April – May, 2010):; title: a) Unbounded Natural Resources prospecting leads to disaster: what we must learn from British Petroleum mistake in the Gulf Coast; title: b) Managing through the tipping point in the British Petroleum’s Environmental Mayhem in the Gulf Coast; title: c) Environmental Consequence of Off-shore oil extraction: lessons from BP’s Disaster in the Gulf Coast.; title: d) Monthly Oil Spills, busted oil and gas pipelines: how do we save our environment from off-shore drilling mishaps; title: e) Quantifying the cost of damage from the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast; title: f) Energy Security for the United States: navigating through public relations mines inflicted by British Petroleum; title: g) Compensation Game in the British Petroleum Oil Spill Debacle; title: h) Verifying the truth in British Petroleum’s effort to manage the pace of leaks into Gulf of Mexico; title: i) Credible Leadership in time of disaster: what companies may learn from British Petroleum’s failure in the Gulf Coast; title: j) Shaggy Defense from three musketeers: British Petroleum, Transocean and Halliburton; title: k) Virtual data analysis and oil spill mapping: do we need to know more from British Petroleum debacle; title: l) Oil Disaster: taming the gushing beast in the Gulf of Mexico; title: m) Deep Horizon Disaster and the politics of environmental diplomacy: why Cuba and US are suddenly talking; title: n) Will the British Petroleum brand survive after the Gulf of Mexico fiasco; title: o) Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana rips into BP in a press conference over its sluggishness at attending to the oil spill crisis; title: p) Making British Petroleum seal the Deep-water Horizon well, now; title: q) The battle for balance in the Prescient’s Press Conference and Visitation to the Gulf Coast; title: r) Coping with the catastrophe of oil pollution in the Gulf Coast after the President’s Visitation to the Accident Site; title: s) Practical tools to help residents of the Gulf Coast survive the current clean up after the failure of the ‘Top Kill’ strategy; title: t) Can BP turn Negative Results to Positive Change on the Deep-water Rig in the Gulf?; title: III. Chapter 3 (June, 2010): Risk of Oil Spill in Carbon-Based Energy Exploration: the Case of British Petroleum; title: a) Preparing for change in oil and gas industry: what the BP accidental spill means; title: b) Envision the possibility of a capped well: when everything else fails in BP’s effort to stop the spill at the Deep-water Horizon Rig; title: c) British Petroleum Ecological Disaster in the Gulf Coast: when logic and intuition tell us.; title: d) Are Internet gatekeepers attempting to benefit from BP’s misfortune od id British petroleum attempting to abridge the citizen’s right to know?; title: e) Failure in Management: what organization managers can learn from BP Debacle; title: f) Human Angle of the British Petroleum‘s Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?; title: g) An open letter to Critics of Obama’s Administration’s response to the Gulf Coast Disaster; title: h) How President Obama attempts to cultivate an upbeat outlook to BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; title: i) When Silence is better: Republican Joe Barton’s apology to British Petroleum; title: j) Testifying in Context: Why BP’s CEO deposition on the hill fell short of expectation; title: k) Scenario planning: how BP could have saved itself from the oil spill mess; title: l) Branding BP anew in the midst of Oil spill debacle: wither the Board of Directors; title: m) Moratorium on Deep-water Drilling: sticking out your neck for common sense.; title: n) Psychological and psychiatrist challenges in the aftermath of British Petroleum Oil Spill; title: o) Visualizing and processing seismic data in oil extraction: Did British Petroleum fail on this while prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico; title: p) Art Gallery: philanthropic donation by British petroleum: Is this the right thing to do now; title: q) An immeasurable matter: British Petroleum’s past monetary contribution to American politics; title: IV. Chapter 4 (July, 2010): Public relations, advertisements, rhapsody, chemical toxicity and the effort to manage the aftermath of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; title: a) Selling an Environmental Disaster: When British petroleum gets into online publishing to counter criticism of its handling of the Deep-water Horizon rig disaster; title: b) Assessing BP costs so far in managing the oil spill experience in the Gulf of Mexico; title: c) Provocative Rhapsody in the confusion of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; title: d) Chemical Toxicity data, marine biology tests and the coming litigation against British Petroleum; title: e) Can advertisements influence public perception of the impact of British Petroleum oil rig blowout?; title: f) Stick around you may just get to see the next BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico; title: g) What is the hullabaloo about the off-shore drilling Moratorium; title: h) British petroleum oil spill Disaster: the politics of jobs in the Gulf Coast; title: i) Hail Mary: using high pressure, high stake method to test the integrity of the Macondo well; title: j) Cautiously Promising: stop-gap engineering feat to halt the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico.; title: k) Developing optimists in the time of doubts: how to reassure the public that all is well on the Macondo well; title: l) Let’s talk about consequential impact of dispersed oil from the Macondo well; title: m) Mathematical Modeling and Data Analysis: compelling tools for understanding ocean floor activities since the capping of Macondo well; title: n) Emerging Humors from British petroleum’s liability in the Gulf of Mexico; title: o) Of Storms, disabled rig alarms and the optimism to proceed with effort to manage the disaster in the Gulf Coast; title: p) Exit of CEO Tony Hayward: the new dynamics in the BP’s saga in the Gulf of Mexico; title: q) Bob Dudley to replace Tony Hayward at BP’s helm: OMG, tell me it’s not true.; title: r) Bub Dudley: An American Executive enthroned king of a British Flagship Corporation.; title: s) Oil Spills: the case for a raining day fund revisited; title: t) BP’s contribution to the idleness in the Gulf Coast: Reason why BP cannot just begin to cut back on the cleanup efforts yet; title: u) Better Fuel Efficient Automobiles revisited in light of the disaster at the Deep-water Horizon rig; title: V. Chapter 5 (August, 2010): The End of BP Oil Spill Nightmare: Closing up the leaks and the future of litigation; title: a) Day 104 of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Can we agree on progress yet.; title: b) Comparative perspective of collective redress under an American versus British Legal System: Implication for litigation against BP in the Deep-water Horizon Debacle; title: c) Is BP jumping the gun with its assessment of progress today at the Deep-water Horizon rig; title: d) Transformational British petroleum: the long walk from oblivion; title: e) Building a better Business Model or Drilling Environment: the future of safety on BP oil rigs; title: f) Machiavellian Plotting and the real Cost of BP Spill to the Gulf Coast; title: g) Revisit the Off-shore Drilling Moratorium Now: Do we really have to.; title: h) BP: Poster child of all that is wrong with workplace safety violation in American Petroleum Industry; title: i) BP vs. State of Alabama: the continuing saga on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; title: j) The case of a relief well and bottom kill in the effort to manage the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico; title: k) Unlocking the secrets of the fishermen Crockpot in the Gulf Coast: what the President’s weekend getaway mean; title: l) Oil spills data storage, parallel file systems and sharing of information after the Deep-water Horizon Explosion; title: m) Gulf Coast Oysters, Shrimps and Crabs: changing cognitive association with BP Oil spill; title: n) Figuring out events leading up to the BP Oil spill: a firsthand account of the Chief Electronic Technician on site; title: o) When hope is not enough: Whereabouts of the spilled BP oil?; title: p) Figuring out events immediately after the explosion at the Deep-water Horizon Rig; what some insiders are now saying; title: q) A Deliberate act: the optimistic talk about BP Oil Spill; title: r) Why is a Democratic Party Senator from the Big Easy Calling for the lifting of moratorium on offshore drilling?; title: VI. Chapter 6 (September, 2010 and After): Rebuilding, Restitution and Civil and/or Criminal Litigation after the BP Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico; title: a) Working together to redeem the Gulf Coast Water: lessons from BP Oil Spills for Southern Governors; title: b) Operating Oil and Gas Production Platforms without an accidental explosion; title: c) BP attempts to influence reform in off-shore drilling through blackmail...; title: d) Digging into BP’s threat of Congress on reforming off-shore drilling: implications for the Clear Water Act; title: e) Redefining workspace safety in off-shore drilling in light of British Petroleum Debacle on the Deep-water Horizon Rig; title: f) Need to know on a Labor day: Questions for US Justice Department Regarding the blow-out preventer; title: g) Keeping Informed: Scientific research Investigation Standard in completing federally funded researches into BP pollution of the Gulf of Mexico; title: h) Keeping you informed II: BP releases its internal investigation report into the Deep-water Horizon fiasco; title: i) Plugging the BP Well for Good: Cautions Restraint Desired.; title: j) BP’s UK parliamentary testimony on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI visit: Why Tony Hayward continues to miss the point on the Deep-water Horizon Disaster; title: k) Offshore oil drilling moratorium, unemployment and Obama Administration’s Agency Staff Comments; title: l) End of Macondo well: Fear and Misery of what’s next; title: m) Rehabilitating Multinational Corporation: When BP attempts to join the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC); title: n) Cultivating leaders after a Disaster: how BP could take advantage of in-house leaders to refocus its objectives on workplace safety; title: o) John Wright and Mitt Simmons: two men to celebrate in different ways with regard to the Deep-water Horizon disaster; title: p) BP Spill: US Coast Guard rear Admiral Paul Zukunft meets retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen; title: VII. Chapter 7 : Summary and Epilog; title: VIII. About the Author