What Does BP Oil Spill?

Around the world, there are multiple oil spills each day. These are generally too small to do much damage, but eventually, there is a large one such as the BP Oil Spill that can devastate entire ecosystems. Oils spills such as these often leave the large question of who is responsible, or who is to be blamed. While some of the blame should be put on the company in charge, a large amount should also be put on the companies on the inside of the job that made the spill possible. Due to the fact that BP wasn’t even on the rig Deepwater Horizon, the blame for the most part shouldn’t be placed on BP, but on the companies that BP hired.
Many people believe BP should be completely blamed because they are the company that hired everyone to do the drilling. …show more content…
A cement mixture inserted into the well by Halliburton also didn’t serve it’s purpose. This is ultimately the reason why oil spilled all over the Gulf of Mexico. Many believe that the blowout preventer and cement malfunction is Transocean’s fault because they trusted CIC and Halliburton to do their job properly. That still isn’t BP’s fault. BP still didn’t install or build the blowout preventer, they didn’t mix the cement either, and if you buy something, you trust that it will work as claimed. A blowout preventer isn’t really something one can return or do a “test run” on just to find out that “oh, it didn’t work.” On board the rig, Transocean’s employees reported that even though “the massive device is supposed to keep oil and gas from rocketing toward the surface and blowing up the oil rig... the blowout preventer was breaking down” (Stone). They knew the preventer was wearing out, but they continued drilling anyway. Michael Williams, an employee on the Deepwater Horizon even said, “bits of rubber were gurgling up through the pipe that connects the rig to the well... but my supervisor told me, in effect, no big deal… and then all of a sudden, a three-inch-thick steel door blew off its hinges and flung me across the room. And I remember thinking to myself, this, this is it. I am going to die right here" (Stone). If the gurgling …show more content…
Those against BP claim that it is because they are completely responsible for the mess. However, does it not make sense that the other companies didn’t get involved so that they could draw most of the attention away from them? “None of the other companies involved put forth an effort to stop the leaking that they helped cause, they just sat and watched their mistake ruin ecosystems” (Introduction). BP should be thanked for trying to make the situation better instead of watching it get worse daily. They did all they could to fix the crisis and nothing to cause