Hi, need to submit a 1750 words paper on the topic BP Pipeline regarding Ethical Behaviors and Decision-Making.

Hi, need to submit a 1750 words paper on the topic BP Pipeline regarding Ethical Behaviors and Decision-Making. The company has faced several environmental crises that have led to several lawsuits and compensations to people affected by the oil spills and explosions. This is due to the fact that the company has been involved in several oil spills and explosions. These include the explosion at the Gulf of Mexico, the Alaska tragedy, the Deepwater Horizon drill rig, and the Algeria oil spill. The most serious spills have been experienced between 2000 and 2010. This paper focuses on the 2006 oil spill and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The explosions and oil spills could have been prevented if BP could have replaced the corroded pipes and paid attention to maintenance and warnings given beforehand. &nbsp.When a company faces a crisis, it should take full responsibility for the crisis and not put the blame on the contractors as BP did.

BP is also referred to as British petroleum. The company has its headquarters in London (Jennings, 2009). The company has operations all over the world making it a multinational. According to Chew, it is the second-largest company in Europe and the largest in the United Kingdom (2008). The BP Company has been involved in several environmental crises with the most serious ones being experienced between 2000 and 2010. In 2005, the Texas City refinery experienced an explosion which caused the deaths of 15 workers (Baladi, 2011). In 2006, an oil spill suspected to be as a result of pipe corrosion occurred at Prudhoe Bay (Baladi, 2011). Baladi points out that the most serious oil spill occurred “at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010” (2011, p. 207).

According to Jennings, “BP’s Prudhoe Bay pipeline burst in March 2006 and resulted in a spill of 267,000 gallons of oil” (2014, p. 362). In fact, before the spill, a board member at BP had pointed out that he was concerned that the pipes had undergone a lot of corrosion and needed pigging. There was also a warning on increased corrosion in 2004 that was in form of an internal report in the company. However, despite these warnings, BP did not make any plans to test the pipeline and did not conduct any maintenance.