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Security De-Engineering
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Security De-Engineering

by Ian Tibble
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 15m
English
Auerbach Publications
Content preview from Security De-Engineering
Whom Do you Blame? 13
been “BP” for more than a decade now) oshore oil drilling disaster in
the Gulf of Mexico is a good, but unfortunate, example.
On 20 April 2010, there was an explosion on a deep-water drilling
platform, Deepwater Horizon, which was contracted out by BP to
Transocean, a Swiss-based contractor. e rig was 40 miles oshore
from Louisiana. Eleven men lost their lives in the incident.
Aside from the tragedy of losing lives, the incident also resulted in
the rupture of the underwater well and the consequent spilling of oil
into the Gulf of Mexico. Two months after the explosion, an inter-
national response team had stemmed the ow of oil to some degree;
however, huge volumes of oil were still being released. e oil out-
ows ...
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