Drowning in oil

Description:

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.

subjects: Infrastructure,  Industrial productivity,  Nature,  Corporate & Business History,  Petroleum industry and trade,  Effect of human beings on,  Cleanup,  British Petroleum Company,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS,  Oil spills,  Tiefseebohrung,  Oljeutsläpp,  Ölunfall,  Erdölwirtschaft,  Oil industry,  Oljeindustri,  Environmental damage,  Petroleum industry and trade, mexico,  Industrial productivity, united states,  Nature, effect of human beings on,  Business enterprises,  British petroleum company.,  Petroleum industry and trade--mexico, gulf of,  Industrial productivity--mexico, gulf of,  Oil spills--cleanup,  Oil spills--cleanup--mexico, gulf of,  Nature--effect of human beings on,  Nature--effect of human beings on--mexico, gulf of,  Hd9574.m63 s74 2011,  338.7/62218240916364

Places: Gulf of Mexico