Oil Spill - Annotated Bibliography

The Spill. Perf. Martin Smith and Abrahm Lustgarten. PBS, 2010. Frontline.

Granatstein, Solly, and Graham Messick. "Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster." CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 16 May 2010. Web. 14 Mar. 2014. <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/blowout-the-deepwater-horizon-disaster-16-05-2010/>.

This article tells the story of the multiple BP oil mishaps that have occurred over the past few years. This article/video is titled "The Deepwater Horizon Disaster" because Mike Williams, a worker at BP, tells his story of the event. He tells how the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon had been building for multiple weeks. Williams reports that weeks before the explosion a very valuable piece of equipment was damaged but no one took any initiative to fix the problem. This problem was simply over looked and had a much larger effect than anyone thought it would. After the disaster, the company had decided to close the well and reopen it later when a new rig was put in place. More investigation was done by multiple sources finding many flaws and mistakes that BP had failed to record. This story was covered mainly to show the safety issues with many companies. Companies do not always take the safety of their workers into account and most companies that do this go unnoticed until a large disaster such as the Deepwater Horizon occurs. 

"The World's 25 Biggest Oil Companies ." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2014. <http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45glfe/1-saudi-aramco-12-5-million-barrels-per-day-3/>.

This article in Forbes Magazine covers the 25 biggest oil companies existing today. These oil campaniles are distributed around the world in places including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, China, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska's Chuckchi Sea, Mexico, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Iraq, Qatar, Italy, Norway, Venezuela, Nigeria, Malaysia and many other offshore locations. This article lists the 25 largest in order and gives information such as who is in charge of the Organization and where their largest oil drilling sights are. While reading through this article one will find that many of the oil companies drill in the same locations. The most poplar is found to be Saudi Arabia. More than 70% of oil companies are controlled and owned by kings and potentants. Some oil companies are also controlled by democratically elected governments such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Norway. This article also highlights the influence that Russian President Vladimir Putin has on the oil industry.