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Author Steffy, Loren C.

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

Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  338.7 Steffy    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 272
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.
Summary Draws on original interviews with BP executives, environmental experts, and industry insiders to assess the competitive corporate culture believed to be at the heart of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Subject 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.
British Petroleum Company.
ISBN 0071760814 : HRD $27.00

 
    
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