BP and the Macondo Spill
Subtitle: The Complete Story
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780230293588
Description: "The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the true costs, not the hyperbolic costs, and an explanation of the science and business of the spill and its remediation"--
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
pagenum: vii |; label: About the Author
pagenum: ix |; label: 1
title: Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Introduction
pagenum: 5; label: Part I
title: The Natural and Economic History of Oil; label: 3
title: A Brief Natural History of Oil
pagenum: 11; label: 4
title: The Science and refining of Oil
pagenum: 15; label: 5
title: Oil and Our Past and Present
pagenum: 21; label: 6
title: Demand for Oil in Our Future
pagenum: 30; label: 7
title: The Industry of Oil Extraction
pagenum: 37; label: Part II
title: The Uneasy Mix of Oil in Our Natural Environment; label: 8
title: The Dirty Dozen before the Deepwater Horizon
pagenum: 47; label: 9
title: The Case of the Exxon Valdez
pagenum: 64; label: 10
title: A Brief History of Oil Rig Fires
pagenum: 75; label: 11
title: Exploration, Drilling, and Extraction U.S. Environmental and Safety Records
pagenum: 80; label: Part III
title: The Macondo Prospect and What Went Wrong; label: 12
title: The Macondo Prospect
pagenum: 97; label: 13
title: What Went Wrong- A Congressional Perspective
pagenum: 106; label: 14
title: Lessons for BP from More Considered Reviews
pagenum: 124; label: 15
title: The Principal-Agent Problem and Transocean
pagenum: 138; label: 16
title: The Management of Risk
pagenum: 143; label: Part IV
title: The Spectacle of the Spill; label: 17
title: For All the World to See
pagenum: 153; label: 18
title: Partners in the Problem
pagenum: 160; label: 19
title: Engineering a Solution
pagenum: 165; label: 20
title: The Toll on the Environment
pagenum: 174; label: Part V
title: Politics, Courts and Markets; label: 21
title: The Politics of Oil
pagenum: 181; label: 22
title: A Complicated Legal Quagmire
pagenum: 190; label: 23
title: The Market Response
pagenum: 202; label: Part VI
title: Where Do BP, Big Oil, and Energy-Starved Consumers Go from Here?; label: 24
title: Reform of Regulatory Oversight
pagenum: 209; label: 25
title: What Do We Do with the World's Insatiable Need for Energy
pagenum: 214; label: 26
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 218; label: Notes
pagenum: 220 |; label: Glossary
pagenum: 229 |; label: Index
pagenum: 233 |