It Makes Little Sense to Turn Those Who Produce Oil Into the Enemies of Society ; Vince Cable, Business Secretary (and Former Mos Columnist) Injects Some Much-Needed Sense Into the Bp Row [Scot Region]
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BP has experienced the oil industry's worst nightmare: a marine environmental disaster, with loss of life and widespread, longlasting damage. I recall that after I joined Shell, 20 years ago, the Chief Executive, Loew van Wachem, gave us an insight into what 'kept him awake at night'.
It was the danger of an environmental disaster like Exxon Valdez that had done serious damage to the world's largest oil company Exxon (Esso to British motorists) a few years earlier. We now have another.See the full content of this document
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It Makes Little Sense to Turn Those Who Produce Oil Into the Enemies of Society ; Vince Cable, Business Secretary (and Former Mos Columnist) Injects Some Much-Needed Sense Into the Bp Row [Scot Region]
The growing focus on the politics and economics of the crisis is detracting from what is, in the first instance, an engineering problem.
Deepwater drilling, in water a mile deep, is a remarkable technological feat and it ...See the full content of this document
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