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OB 354 Ethical Dilemma Case October 11, 2017 Mitchell Valla 1. What are the facts in the case? • John is a very accomplished seismologist who reports to the director of the research facility he works at • John has spent years developing a method for predicting major earthquakes that will hit the West Coast • The facility John works for is funded by government money and corporate interests • John has developed a technique that he believes is 80 percent accurate in predicting an…

BP and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster of 2010 Case Study Analysis o What lead to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? The popular oil company known as BP publicly prided itself on the company’s commitment to safety and the environment; however, shifts in leadership roles giving individuals more power caused the company to choose a less costly and more time friendly method of securing the rig for the drillings. This method ultimtely came at a huge cost to the environment as the largest marine oil…

In comparing two companies that manufacture one of the most demanded products on the planet, Chevron and Exxon Mobil are the two companies are at the top of the oil and gas industry and are responsible for most of the gas and oil that is sold throughout the United States. Each company is highly profitable and are able to turn their product quickly and continue to supply the country with an almost endless supply of gasoline and oil. A breakdown of each company’s liquidity, solvency, and…

artificial lifts, for example, pump jacks. The secondary recovery utilizes water and gas injection, dislodging the oil and driving it to the surface. US Department of Energy stated that by using these two systems can leave up to 75% of the oil in the well. The best approach to further increase oil production is through the tertiary recovery technique which is Chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR). CEOR has been labeled as an expensive method and…

British Petroleum referred today as BP has been a household name for many decades and has been in existence for over a century. BP has had its fair share of lawsuits and investigations stemmed form corporate fraud, environmental catastrophes, and ethical dilemmas in addition to the largest oil spill in the history of the world. At times during BP's history the company had failed to protect its stockholders, however, the energy giant became recognized as a leader for good practices in protecting…

form of pollution. Since so much oil is being released into the ocean, should we really risk clean water to oil? Bernie Sanders once said “We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for…

significance of making an ethics-focused decision with its ethics parameters. On May 5, 2015, Wells Fargo Bank is sued…

Wells Fargo was the company I have selected for my final project. My rationale for choosing them is slightly beneficial for me because I am a customer and have been since early 2000. As a client, I want see how were going to turn around the public and stakeholders view of their Corporate Social Responsibility after many mishaps in the past few years. One of Wells Fargo biggest mishaps was their unfair lending practices and also a more resent problem were bank employees issuing unwanted credit…

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was a tragic mishap on BP’s behalf, killing several rig workers and having many other outreaching effects. The amount of crude oil that was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of approximately three months was 4.9 million barrels of oil and to go along with that, 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants to the Gulf. A major group of crude oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was discovered along the northern shorelines of the Gulf of Mexico.…

drilling rig Deepwater Horizon took place. To date, the oil spill is the largest in history, and was caused by a multitude of factors. In February 2009, British Petroleum (BP), proposed a plan to drill in the Macondo well to the Minerals Management Service (MMS). The Macondo well is off the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/161185/). BP was looking to expand their oil drilling, which was the motivation for proposing their idea to the MMS. BP…