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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817467303321

Autore

Reed Stanley <1950->

Titolo

In too deep : BP and the drilling race that took it down / / Stanley Reed, Alison Fitzgerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Bloomberg Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-91782-3

1-118-02321-8

1-118-02319-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Bloomberg News

Classificazione

BUS027000

Altri autori (Persone)

FitzgeraldAlison

Disciplina

363.738/20916364

Soggetti

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010

Oil wells - Mexico, Gulf of - Blowouts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

In Too Deep: BP And The Drilling Race That Took It Down; Contents; Cast of Characters; Authors' Note; Prologue; Chapter 1: Night of Horror, Day of Triumph; Chapter 2: The Oil Lord; Chapter 3: Agents of Empire; Chapter 4: The Big Kahuna of the Gulf; Chapter 5: Money, Politics, and Bad Timing; Chapter 6: Lord Browne's Long Goodbye; Chapter 7: Riding the Throughput Curve; Chapter 8: Tony Hayward Comes Up Short; Chapter 9: Disaster on the Horizon; Chapter 10: BP Struggles to Survive; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; About the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--