Profit from the Source

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Settle for Perfection

Deliver Unbeatable Quality by Joining Forces with Your Suppliers to Wage a War on Errors

At about 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, a massive explosion ripped through a gargantuan oil rig drilling deep into the ocean floor forty miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers were killed, and over the next three months, more than four million barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf, leaving a slick that stretched over 57,500 square miles and destroyed wildlife, ruined the pristine natural environment, and wrecked the local economy.¹

The catastrophic blast at the Deepwater Horizon well is generally remembered as the “BP oil rig disaster.” In its quest for new reserves of oil and gas, the British energy ...