SPILLS AND SPIN: THE INSIDE STORY OF BP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK

Tom Bergin | 304 pages | 06 Feb 2012 | Cornerstone | 9781847940827 | English | London, United Kingdom Verify your identity

This killed me. You should see people around here fighting for a window seat. Page 14 they discuss the complications of reporting both regionally and functionally. They both have a lot of positives and negatives. Interesting that commercial and outsourcing used to be so important and not "deep technical expertise" and now we're going opposite. It also drives me crazy that the pendulum swings from one side to the other, there seems to be a thing against a happy medium in the middle. Never knew all the history about when BP acquired . The same conquer new lands and people attitude. Graduates didn't want to come to BP so they threw money at the problem. I wonder if this is how the Challenger program got its roots. Page "the message was clear: people's perceptions could be changed dramatically and rapidly if one was bold enough Liberty is another example. Page new health and safety guy after tour said 'it frightened the shit out of me. Page " The Bain Dashboards came to mind. Page "management had been so concerned about it that a program called operation people was introduced in an attempt to improve the situation although the program was largely cosmetic. Page talking about management departing "this left a coterie of former turtles beneath Browne. All were bright and able but also seen as yes-men, moulded in their leaders image and unlikely to challenge him. Makes your job easier. I think it fits over and over again. Page "BP was also meticulous about monitoring cash spend. Page Made me laugh: "in keeping with the communications policy of avoiding all language that might suggest calamity, the centre had been renamed the "Incident Command Center", although no one had thought to take down the signs on the walls that said 'Crisis Center'. Same issue as BP, even if you do a lousy job you get promoted. I didn't know Doug Suttles left the company. Page Another example of bullshit "managers are held responsible for their commercial decisions, with successes bringing rapid promotions and failure prompting dismissal or demotion. I can think of one in particular that should get canned based on morale of the department he left when he got promoted to Houston. Good to understand corporate fajlures Good Reading but unfortunately it was written to close to when the incident happened not given the chance to have a better retrospective of full consequences. May 16, Viola rated it liked it. Part One of review BP is the rival to and Shell in globalised disaster capitalism's fossil fool energy from oil racket. Anglo-Persian Oil Company was bailed out in by the British Government taking a majority shareholding stake pushed by Lord of the Admiralty Churchill. What the author Bergin fails to give is bigger picture The APO Company and other business interests wanted their trade route Part One of review BP is the rival to Exxon and Shell in globalised disaster capitalism's fossil fool energy from oil racket. What the author Bergin fails to give is bigger picture The APO Company and other business interests wanted their trade route secured against competitors and so Australians were sacrificed by landing on the beach at Gallipoli the wrong site ordered by order giver Churchill over-ruling other Admiralty objections. Australians are still being sacrificed for trade routes and resources in Iraq and Afghanistan not just for the British but for the USA the current Empire and the Corporations it serves. The company soon renamed itself as "British Petroleum" and got its oil fields back. With that base to explore from BP moved into Iraq and the "middle east" region. Until the s when nationalisation of oil industry happened in Iraq, Libya, Abu Dhabi and finally Iran in Nationalisation without compensation in some regions of the planet upset the plunder business as usual model so a Management solition was sought. The Chicago business school economists lead by Milton Friedman strategy was "neo-liberalism" which is free market enforced by the State as privatisation. First example was in Chile in through military coup of General Pinochet which rapidly privatised, sold off any government industry. Plutocracy is government for the wealthy and Corporations which is what almost every Government in the world will do serve BP. Aug 11, Dan Glover rated it really liked it Shelves: social-political-criticism. Tom Bergin has written a compelling tale of a company, British Petroleum, who sacrificed the safety of its own people, its stakeholders and the environment for the sake of a robust bottom line. While the thrust of this book, like all stories, can never be purely objective, Bergin certainly was in a position to know the story more fully than anyone else, being the head of Reuters resource and energy sector coverage and personally managing coverage of BP for years. Bergin ultimately tells the tale Tom Bergin has written a compelling tale of a company, British Petroleum, who sacrificed the safety of its own people, its stakeholders and the environment for the sake of a robust bottom line. Bergin ultimately tells the tale of how the Gulf spill happened and the events leading up to it, but he is not satisfied with examining a few weeks ahead of the disaster. Bergin's story, and BP's, begins decades earlier. Bergin exposes a history of cost cutting, stop-gap or misdirected safety measures, and expensive green-washing PR and media messaging campaigns, to convince shareholders, regulators and the general public that BP was the operator of choice. Pre-owned: Lowest price The lowest- priced item that has been used or worn previously. Readable copy. See all 4 pre-owned listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Sold by thrift. About this product Product Information In April , the world watched in alarm as BP's Macondo well suffered a fatal explosion and a catastrophic leak. Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the worst oil spills in history. But there is more to BP's story than this. Tom Bergin, an oil broker turned Reuters reporter, watched the 'two-pipeline company' of the early s grow into a dynamic oil giant and PR machine by the turn of the twenty-first century. His unique access to key figures before, during and after the spill - including former CEO - has enabled him to piece together this compelling account of a corporation in crisis, and to examine how crucial decisions made during BP's remarkable turnaround paved the way for its darkest hour. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Bergin charts how Lord John Browne cunningly rebranded BP as the first "green" oil company, even as key safety issues were ignored. A gripping story of corporate hubris and incompetence" The Sunday Times Books of the Year, "Bergin, a highly regarded oil industry reporter, has provided the best assessment yet of how the accident was rooted in the nature of BP, the most swashbuckling of the oil giants. But examining just this one party, it concludes BP was "utterly wrong" to place all immediate blame for the accident on its contractor , the owner of the exploded rig. It also accuses BP of failing to be "honest and transparent" in the aftermath, laying fault for this mostly with Hayward for not taking the advice of PR boss Andrew Gowers and chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg. It's a deeply critical portrait of BP and one that stands out as the most thoughtful of the many recent accounts, relating how BP made similar mistakes over and over, and questioning whether new chief 's decision to continue a "business model that drives for performance" will see the oil giant commit the same errors once again. Spills and Spin: The Inside Story of BP - Tom Bergin - Google Books With a sense of perspective, Spills and Spin traces how a colonial-style, state company with deep technical expertise became essentially an investment company that set less and less store by engineering talent. This particular story is about BP and does not look at any simultaneous safety failings at other companies involved in the accident. But examining just this one party, it concludes BP was "utterly wrong" to place all immediate blame for the accident on its contractor Transocean, the owner of the exploded rig. I think that they are not well-served by some legal settlement in which everything remains, all the documents remain, shut and they end up getting a check through the post. I also don't think that it's very useful in preventing such accidents happening again because if we don't really investigate the root causes of disasters then how are we going to stop them from happening again? Q: When did you start thinking that the way BP had operated over a long time might have been partly to blame for the spill? A: "Because I knew that BP had been cutting costs very harshly I did suspect that that would be a factor, but the problem with that as an overarching explanation is that every company cuts costs. There has to be a reason why, if it's true that BP cut costs to an unsafe level, and it had a culture of doing that over a long period of time, there has to be an explanation for that. I guess what I was looking for was the why on all these things. A: "In terms of accidents if there's going to be an accident, a disaster which is a result of structural issues, it largely comes down to what those structures are. The problem is that we don't know what they are. We don't know if they've been done away with. He has made that change. Q: How did you decide on the name for the book? It was this issue of these narratives being offered over time that appear confusing, if not contradictory, that I guess led me towards this title. So he ran 80 percent of the company for four years before John Browne BP chief executive before Hayward left. Cyclical Consumer Goods Updated. Spills and Spin: The Inside Story of BP |

Bergin, head of Reuters oil industry coverage in Europe, the Middle East and Africa since , talked to former senior executives to uncover the whys and hows of a spill that devastated Gulf coastlines. Bergin spoke about his book, a story which fundamentally challenges the narratives BP offered to explain the disaster. A: "If a disaster happens, I think that the victims of that, and their families, are very much entitled to a proper explanation as to what happened. I think that they are not well-served by some legal settlement in which everything remains, all the documents remain, shut and they end up getting a check through the post. I also don't think that it's very useful in preventing such accidents happening again because if we don't really investigate the root causes of disasters then how are we going to stop them from happening again? Q: When did you start thinking that the way BP had operated over a long time might have been partly to blame for the spill? A: "Because I knew that BP had been cutting costs very harshly I did suspect that that would be a factor, but the problem with that as an overarching explanation is that every company cuts costs. There has to be a reason why, if it's true that BP cut costs to an unsafe level, and it had a culture of doing that over a long period of time, there has to be an explanation for that. I guess what I was looking for was the why on all these things. If you have questions about your account, please contact customer service or call us at This message will appear once per week unless you renew or log out. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer. This website uses cookies to improve functionality and performance. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Search for:. Monitor Daily Current Issue. A Christian Science Perspective. Monitor Movie Guide. Monitor Daily. Photos of the Week. Edmund D. Wednesday, June 23, September 14, By Mark Guarino Staff writer markguarino. Related stories Is oil leaking in the Gulf from the BP spill site? Tar balls dumped on Ala. Q: When did you start thinking that the way BP had operated over a long time might have been partly to blame for the spill? I guess what I was looking for was the why on all these things. Q: Would another accident at BP surprise you? One of the things that I outline in the book is how the fundamental restructuring of the company into autonomous different units in the early s created really dangerous incentives for managers to run their business for the short term. He has made that change.

Book Talk: Tom Bergin exposes spin behind BP spill

He takes readers back nearly 30 years to explain how a company that was almost destroyed by privatization and the oil-price crash of the late s was able to transform itself into the industry's most dynamic player, and most sophisticated PR machine, by the turn of the 21st century. At the same time, he examines how crucial decisions made during this remarkable turnaround period paved the way for BP's darkest hour. Apart from the oil industry, Tom has reported on financial scandals, including the rise and fall of Enron, environmental issues, EU politics and terrorist attacks. He lives in London with his wife, a former Reuters reporter turned investment banker, and two young sons. Q: When did you start thinking that the way BP had operated over a long time might have been partly to blame for the spill? I guess what I was looking for was the why on all these things. Q: Would another accident at BP surprise you? One of the things that I outline in the book is how the fundamental restructuring of the company into autonomous different units in the early s created really dangerous incentives for managers to run their business for the short term. He has made that change. With a sense of perspective, Spills and Spin traces how a colonial-style, state company with deep technical expertise became essentially an investment company that set less and less store by engineering talent. This particular story is about BP and does not look at any simultaneous safety failings at other companies involved in the accident. But examining just this one party, it concludes BP was "utterly wrong" to place all immediate blame for the accident on its contractor Transocean, the owner of the exploded rig. https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4641369/normal_601f5e0a7a2a8.pdf https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4636372/normal_601f8e579d9e4.pdf https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4640145/normal_601f49f611aa7.pdf https://files8.webydo.com/9593524/UploadedFiles/49D50CBD-DF89-2A43-8153-C4E755966B75.pdf