BP Says Oil Spill was a Multifaceted Problem

BP Has published a report pointing an accusing finger on various players in an effort to exonerate their business entity for taking the entire blame on the accident on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010.

In what is termed as a comprehensive internal investigation, BP found out that no single factor caused the oil spill, rather a set of multifaceted problems led to the disaster. The Macondo well tragedy was caused by a series of failures involving different parties’ lack of responsibility. The Macondo rig exploded killing at least 11 people and subsequently causing crude to spill into the sea.

The explosion led to an oil spill that took months of extreme underwater engineering to cap the leaking well. For months, oil gushed from the well causing massive loss of an energy resource while polluting the sea in the most disastrous manner ever observed.

BP has published the report of its internal investigation on the explosion on its official website. In the report, BP has comprehensively explained how a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the Macondo rig explosion and the fire that killed 11 people.

BP ended up firing its chief executive for his failure to address the problem aggressively.