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This 15 page paper at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill which occurred in April 2010, examining the event from a quality management perspective, identifying the problems in terms of quality management before and during the disaster and then discussing the way in which quality management could be improved at the company. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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to high or too low), it also deals with processes and system. When looking at the BP1 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster it may be argued that there were some
distinct quality management issues, and while there were some positive aspects of the way that the disaster was managed, there are also many lessons that may be learned. When looking
at this disaster there has been a great deal of rhetoric regarding who is and is not the blame, when looking at quality management the paper is confining the issues
to those concerning the actions and reaction of BP only, further discussion of potential contributions towards responsibility etc is beyond the scope of this paper. In order to assess the
quality management issues with reference to the event it is necessary to look first at the event itself, whats happened, and then consider these events in the context of quality
management. The problem at BP hit the news on the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon semi submersible offshore drilling unit, owned by Transocean, which was leased by BP
was undertaking the drilling of an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico at a location 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, where the water was roughly 5,000 feet
deep. At roughly 9.45 pm2 there was an explosion resulting from high pressure methane gas shooting up and out of the drill column, igniting and expanding across the platform. The
platform was engulfed by fire, and workers had to escape the rig using lifeboats. 11 employees were never found, despite a three-day search by the Coast Guard, they are assumed
to have died in the explosion. Attempts to put out a fire by multiple ships failed, and after 36 hours of burning Deepwater Horizon sunk on the morning of 22
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