In too deep [electronic resource] : BP and the drilling race that took it down / Stanley Reed, Alison Fitzgerald.
2011
TD427.P4 R39 2011eb
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In too deep [electronic resource] : BP and the drilling race that took it down / Stanley Reed, Alison Fitzgerald.
Author
Reed, Stanley, 1950-
ISBN
9781118023198 (electronic bk.)
9780470950906
9781118023204 (electronic bk.)
9781118023211 (electronic bk.)
9780470950906
9781118023204 (electronic bk.)
9781118023211 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
Hoboken, N.J. : Bloomberg Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 226 p.) : ill.
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TD427.P4 R39 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.738/20916364
Summary
"The truth behind the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history. In 2005, fifteen workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. Now, in 2010, eleven BP workers were killed in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo blowout. What's next? In In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race that Took It Down, Stanley Reed--a journalist who has covered BP for over a decade--and investigative reporter Alison Fitzgerald answer not only the question of what's next but also examine why these disasters always happen to BP and not to the other large oil companies. The book shows that practices put in place by former BP CEO John Browne who was forced to resign after salacious details of his private life emerged in 2007 may have more to do with the disaster than anything, details a BP built on risk-taking and cost-cutting, and examines the past, present, and future of BP. In August 2010, BP successfully "killed" the company's damaged deepwater well. But, the environmental fallout and public relations campaign to rebuild the brand are just beginning. In Too Deep details why BP suffered this disaster, why now, and what's next for the oil giant."-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Night of horror, day of triumph
The oil lord
Agents of empire
The big kahuna of the gulf
Money, politics, and bad timing
Lord Browne's long goodbye
Riding the throughput curve
Tony Hayward comes up short
Disaster on the Horizon
BP struggles to survive.
The oil lord
Agents of empire
The big kahuna of the gulf
Money, politics, and bad timing
Lord Browne's long goodbye
Riding the throughput curve
Tony Hayward comes up short
Disaster on the Horizon
BP struggles to survive.