《drowning in oil: bp & the reckless pursu》是2010年McGraw-Hill出版的圖書。作者是Loren C. Steffy。
基本介紹
- 中文名：drowning in oil: bp & the reckless pursu
- 作者：Loren C. Steffy
- 出版社：McGraw-Hill
- ISBN：9780071760812
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosionsrocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drillingplatform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off theLouisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives, and it wouldrage uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank to a finalresting place nearly a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor,the unit's wellhead erupted. Over the next ten weeks, as repeatedattempts to cap the geyser failed, an estimated 200 million gallonsof oil—the equivalent of 20 Exxon Valdez spills—spewed into theGulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away asFlorida.
Drowning in Oil, by award-winning Houston Chronicle businessreporter and columnist Loren Steffy—considered by many to be thewriter with the best access to the story—is an unprecedented andgripping narrative of this catastrophe and how BP's winner-take-allbusiness culture made it all but inevitable.
Through never-before-published interviews with BP executives andemployees, environmental experts, and oil industry insiders, Steffytakes us behind the scenes of 100 years of BP corporate history.Beginning with the conglomerate's early gambits in the Middle Eastto its recent ascent among energy titans, Steff unearths the rootsof the Gulf oil spill in the unwritten bargain between oilproducers and consumers, whose insatiable appetites drive thesearch for new supplies faster, farther, and deeper.
Beyond this, the Deepwater Horizon disaster took place after ahistory of cost cutting in pursuit of profits, particularly underthe guidance of its two most recent ex-CEOs, John Browne andAnthony Hayward.
Exhaustively researched and documented, Drowning in Oil is thefirst in-depth examination of how a lack of corporateresponsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshoreoil spill in U.S. history. It is an objective, no-punches-pulledaccount of the energy industry: its environmental impact and theintense competition among stakeholders in today's oilmarkets.
This book puts all the pieces together, offering a definitiveaccount of BP's pursuit of outsized profits as the industrial worldawakens to the grim realities of Peak Oil.
"They fumbled around the darkened room and found an instructionmanual. By flashlight, they read the starting procedures. They weredoing everything right. After five or six futile tries, they gaveup and headed back toward the bridge. Back on the bridge, alarmswere shrieking and the captain knew they were running out of time.The subsea engineer had hit the emergency disconnect for the well,and although the control panel showed the rig should be free, itwasn't. The hydraulics were dead. Fire continued to shoot from thetop of the derrick. The rig had no power, and without power, it hadno pumps for the firefighting equipment, no way to shut off theflow of gas from the well, and no way to disconnect the rig fromthe flaming umbilical that had it tethered to the wellhead." —fromDrowning in Oil
作者簡介
Loren C. Steffy is the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle. He has been recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Houston Press Club, and other societies and organizations. In addition, his work has been cited in publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post Online, and Texas Monthly, and he's made numerous appearances on CNBC, FOX News, MSNBC, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Court TV. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas.
