BP’s Response to the Gulf Oil Spill

Term papers on BP’s Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill would investigate how quickly BP reacted to the knowledge that one of its offshore rigs had exploded, that eleven employees were killed and that a wellhead was now gushing thousands of barrels of crude oil into the ocean. More importantly, term papers on BP’s Response to the Gulf Oil Spill would examine how effectively BP responded in the first several days and then in the weeks and months following the accident to stop the flow of oil. Although term papers on BP’s Response to the Gulf Oil Spill would focus primarily on the steps that BP has taken to stop the oil spill, they would also emphasize BP’s responsibility for ensuring that such accidents did not occur again or that technological solutions existed to quickly mitigate them.
BP responded quickly to the news that one of its oilrigs had exploded, facing press conferences on a daily basis while fielding questions concerning the accident’s impact of the water pollution on the environment, on the families of the workers who were killed and on the Company’s bottom line. Unfortunately, BP’s quick response did not include the capacity to immediately address what would become its greatest problem – the unbridled flow of crude oil from the rig’s broken wellhead. The established and anticipated damages from the oil spill as well as the global attention it has garnered should serve as indisputable incentives for companies like BP to develop measures that either prevent or quickly control such accidents in the future.