Essay On How Did The Bp Spill

A relationship between the government, emergency responders, and company is a crucial thing to have, especially when it comes to oil & gas. The oil companies, who have offshore rigs, need to make sure they have an effective communication with first responders and follow all government regulations to ensure the safety of its employees. The company BP is infamous for the deep-water horizon disaster that happened in 2010, they had multiple chances to prevent this disaster but failed. BP failed to maintained quality standards causing the offshore drilling rig to explode, the first safety quality that was ignore was the pressure from the readings of the pipeline. It was said that the pressure was an error from the readings so the rig continued …show more content…
The cement that was pumped in the pipeline had failed multiple test which BP failed to recognize. This was the major reason for the oil and gas to escape to the rig. Finally, the last quality standard that was not met was the BOP used had a fifty percent fail rate. BP knew this going in but still installed it, when it came down to closing the BOP it failed. This tragic event caused the lives of eleven BP employees. This should be a primary example of why government communication between companies should be kept up-to-date. This ensures that big companies are following the regulations put in place by the government. Apart from regulations the government should conduct inspections into the companies to ensure that all regulations are being met and not skimmed over like BP did. Another relationship that should be kept up-to-date and ensure a strong foundation between the two are, companies and first responders. In the deep-water horizon, the first responders took almost two days to stop the fire. This could have been drastically reduced if they had a plan for situations like this, but they didn’t. The first set of first responders had trouble getting to the rig as it was 10:00 pm at night and 18 miles