I’ve talked at length in past blog posts about the utter disaster that the BP crisis plan following the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been. First there was mistruths about the accident (and that’s putting it mildly). Then there was a loose cannon CEO, complaining about the inconvenience of the spill and acting – as the [...]
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And the BP Beat Goes On
Posted by BPMangus on August 25th, 2010
Posted in Business Basics, Crisis Management 
Tags: BP, Business, Crisis Plan, Gulf, Oil, PR 
No Comments »Home Run for Big Oil. For BP, Another Strike Out.
Posted by BPMangus on July 22nd, 2010
The announcement today that Exxon, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips – four of the largest players in the oil industry – are creating a JV to address future large scale oil spills was a textbook example of how to turn the tables on negative public scrutiny. While the industry has been vilified for months for its [...]
Posted in Business Basics, Crisis Management, Following the Leaders Tags: Blog, Environment, Image, Industry, Marketing, Media, Oil No Comments »BP Fighting a Losing Battle
Posted by BPMangus on June 23rd, 2010
We’ve referenced BP quite a bit lately – and for good reason. The spill in the Gulf has become the biggest ecological disaster in US history and has become a text book example of what not to do in a crisis situation. We’ve detailed some of BP’s past failings in previous blog posts, but this [...]
Posted in Business Basics, Crisis Management Tags: BP, Crisis Situation, MSNBC, Oil, Public Opinion No Comments »The CEO Said What??
Posted by BPMangus on June 4th, 2010
OK, so we’ve been picking apart the BP Gulf Oil Spill in the last several posts, but for good reason. The disaster in the Gulf has been a text book case study about what to do – and NOT do – in a crisis situation. While BP has handled some things correctly – near full [...]
Even in a Serious Situation, BP Wise Not to Take Some Things So Seriously
Posted by BPMangus on May 25th, 2010
I just read an interesting article about a BP PR parody on Twitter that has quickly amassed double the following of BP’s actual Twitter account. It seems the Twitter feed in question is actually a fraud – sending out irreverent and inaccurate feeds about the disaster in the Gulf. And BP’s reaction to the false [...]
What Marcellus Shale Operators can learn from BP and the Gulf Spill
Posted by BPMangus on May 18th, 2010
On 4/20 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and thousands of barrels of oil began gushing uncontrollably into the Gulf of Mexico from its damaged pipeline. Almost one month later, little has been done to stem the flow and damages to Transocean (the operator) and BP will likely run into the billions. Accidents happen and [...]
Posted in Crisis Management Tags: BP, Crisis Situation, Environment, Green, Gulf, Marcellus Shale, Oil No Comments »
