國立虎尾科技大學 |

Language: English

Back

Drowning in oil : = BP and the reckl...

Steffy, Loren C.

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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Drowning in oil :/ Loren C. Steffy.
Reminder of title:	BP and the reckless pursuit of profit /
Author:	Steffy, Loren C.
Published:	New York :McGraw-Hill, : c2011.,
Description:	xvii, 285 p. ;24 cm.;
Subject:	Industrial productivity - Mexico, Gulf of. -
ISBN:	0071760814 (hbk.) :

Drowning in oil : = BP and the reckless pursuit of profit /
Steffy, Loren C.

Drowning in oil :BP and the reckless pursuit of profit /Loren C. Steffy. - New York :McGraw-Hill,c2011. - xvii, 285 p. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 0071760814 (hbk.) :NT644Subjects--Corporate Names:

839042
British Petroleum Company.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

839043
Industrial productivity
--Mexico, Gulf of.

LC Class. No.: HD9574.M63 / S74 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 338.7/62218240916364 / S817

Drowning in oil : = BP and the reckless pursuit of profit /
LDR:02041cam a2200205 a 4500 001 709645
005 20110110114721.0
008 120907s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 $a 0071760814 (hbk.) : $c NT644
020 $a 9780071760812 (hbk.) : $c NT644
035 $a 16495740 59
040 $a DLC $c DLC
043 $a nm-----
050 0 0 $a HD9574.M63 $b S74 2011
082 0 0 $a 338.7/62218240916364 $b S817
100 1 $a Steffy, Loren C. $3 839041
245 1 0 $a Drowning in oil : $b BP and the reckless pursuit of profit / $c Loren C. Steffy.
260 $a New York : $c c2011. $b McGraw-Hill,
300 $a xvii, 285 p. ; $c 24 cm.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index.
505 0 $a 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.
520 $a 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.
610 2 0 $a British Petroleum Company. $3 839042
650 0 $a Industrial productivity $z Mexico, Gulf of. $3 839043
650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on $z Mexico, Gulf of. $3 839044
650 0 $a Oil spills $x Cleanup $z Mexico, Gulf of. $3 839045
650 0 $a Petroleum industry and trade $z Mexico, Gulf of. $3 839046