Drowning in oil : BP and the reckless pursuit of profit / Loren C. Steffy.
2011
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Title
Drowning in oil : BP and the reckless pursuit of profit / Loren C. Steffy.
Author
Steffy, Loren C.
ISBN
9780071760812 (alk. paper)
0071760814 (alk. paper)
0071760814 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD9574.M63 S74 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.7/62218240916364
Summary
The first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. On April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives and raged uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor, the unit's wellhead erupted. Over the next ten weeks, an estimated 200 million gallons of oil--the equivalent of 20 Exxon Valdez spills--spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away as Florida. Business journalist Loren Steffy--considered by many to be the writer with the best access to the story--presents the definitive account of this catastrophe and how BP's winner-take-all business culture made it all but inevitable.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Piercing the fires of hell
Dawn in the desert
Rise of the sun king
"Flying close to the wind"
"There's nothing left"
Imminent hazard
The price of failure
The fixer
The fall of the sun king
Not enough
"A burning platform"
"Who cares, it's done"
Prelude to disaster
Drops in the big ocean
A fox in the henhouse
Reefs of ruin
Apologies all around
Meet the new boss
Lost faith
All for oil.
Dawn in the desert
Rise of the sun king
"Flying close to the wind"
"There's nothing left"
Imminent hazard
The price of failure
The fixer
The fall of the sun king
Not enough
"A burning platform"
"Who cares, it's done"
Prelude to disaster
Drops in the big ocean
A fox in the henhouse
Reefs of ruin
Apologies all around
Meet the new boss
Lost faith
All for oil.