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Ethical dilemmas frequently appear in society and are defined as “a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle”. One of the largest energy... more
Risk management is an old concept and an ongoing debate from the beginning. Today, businesses are learning hard lessons especially after disastrous events such as BP Deepwater Horizon, naked credit default swaps, and failure of U.S.... more
Analysis on the Deepwater Horizon event on professional ethics perspective.
The 2010 BP (formerly British Petroleum) Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States (Belanger et al., 2010]. The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important and... more
Two significant hydrocarbon spills have occurred in U.S. waters to date; the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska and the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. A review of the lessons learned and outcomes from... more
The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill took place over 180,000 square kilometers during a 12- week period over five years ago; however, this event continues to influence the development and distribution of organisms in and around the region of... more
Oil spill model simulations of a deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico De Soto Canyon, assuming no intervention and various response options (i.e., subsea dispersant injection SSDI, in addition to mechanical recovery, in-situ burning,... more
On the 20th of April 2010, an outstanding explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig situated in the Golf of Mexico caused the largest maritime disaster oil spill in the USA history and particularly caused considerable reputation and... more
Glasgow and Train (2018) propose a correction to the government’s estimate of recreation damages in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill assessment. Their correction depends on a description of behavior they assume to be true but did not test.... more