Bp's Apparent Ethical Standards

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BP's Apparent Ethical Standards Cheryl Harrison & Renee Davis PHL/323 Version 4 September 18, 2012 Patrica "Mary" Morriss BP's Apparent Ethical Standards After the worst manmade environmental disaster in recorded history of the United States, British Petroleum proclaimed to self discipline themselves with an alleged machination for an all out overhaul of their now questionable standards. Some of those proclamations included; * Enhanced requirements for blowout preventers (BOP) to include both two blind shear rams and a casing shear ram on BP operated dynamically-positioned rigs. * Third-party verification for BOP testing and maintenance. * Enhanced review standards for cementing procedures and materials. * Enhanced offshore spill response capabilities. * Enhancing monitoring of drilling operations A BP representative stated in 2011; “we prepared to restart our drilling operations by implementing voluntary standards, enhancing the monitoring of our operations and by working closely with the regulator.” By the end of 2011, BP had five deepwater drilling rigs in operation in the Gulf of Mexico. To enhance safety and teamwork in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has established the Collaborative Real-time Environment (CoRE) facility and expanded its Houston monitoring operations. The state-of-the-art CoRE facility has a large data wall that can display real-time well information of drilling operations at any of our rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico. Displays from the data wall also can be broadcast throughout BP’s wells organization in Houston as well as in conference rooms and special rooms assigned to each offshore rig. The facility enables well-monitoring specialists in BP’s Houston offices to assist their colleagues located at each offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the Houston monitoring center, the

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