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Drowning in oil : BP and the reckless pursuit of profit /

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, loca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steffy, Loren C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011].
Subjects:
British Petroleum Company.
British Petroleum Company
Petroleum industry and trade > Mexico, Gulf of.
Industrial productivity > Mexico, Gulf of.
Oil spills > Cleanup > Mexico, Gulf of.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Mexico, Gulf of.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Mexique, Golfe du.
Productivité > Mexique, Golfe du.
Déversements de pétrole > Nettoyage > Mexique, Golfe du.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Mexique, Golfe du.
Industry.
Industrial productivity.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Oil spills > Cleanup.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Gulf of Mexico.
Ölunfall
Erdölwirtschaft
Tiefseebohrung
Golf von Mexiko
Oljeindustri.
Oljeutsläpp.
Oil industry > Mexico.
Environmental damage > Mexico.
Nonfiction.
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.