Whom Do you Blame? 13
been “BP” for more than a decade now) oshore 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 oshore
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 ...