Group+1_Causes

Group 1: Causes

Group Work:

Overview:

Our group looked into the matrix of factors that caused the DP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. When addressing cause, it is simple to think of it in the context of cause and effect relationships. For the BP disaster, the spill itself is evidently the cause. However, in attempting to break down the event into a single causal chain, things become more difficult. What caused the spill? The answer isn’t a single thing, but instead a combination of different factors that summed together to give the overall effect. Within the context of our research, our group aims at looking further into some of those causal factors. Areas that are addressed are BP’s safety record as a company, the component failure on the rig, the other companies that were present on the rig, and finally the political governing bodies and their policies. The overviews of these factors can be seen by clicking on their links below under Individual Work.

Individual Work:

__Safety Culture of BP __ Contractors __﻿ __ The Regulatory Regime ([])