Drowning in oil

By Loren C. Steffy

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

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.