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British petroleum (BP) founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian oil and gas company headquartered in London England, United Kingdom. It's a sixth largest O&G company by production and fifth largest company by annual revenue. Its major field of operations are exploration, production, refining, distribution and marketing of the hydrocarbon products. BP operating in over 80 countries of the world International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 - 8887) Volume 86 - No 6, January 2014 35 having over 80,000 employees. Its largest division is operating in America under the name of BP America and it's the second largest oil and gas production company in the United States. It has 22400 service stations selling about 5.9 million barrel per day. It is one of those oil and gas companies who have invested heavily for the invention and adoption of new exploration technology to find petrochemical under the earth surface.

In April 2010, in the region of Gulf of Mexico situated 52 miles southeast of the Louisiana port of Venice an explosion occurred in the Deep-Water Horizon project. This explosion caused the oil spill which was one of the worst ever oil disaster in the history of the modern world. This incident results the loss of 11 worker's lives. The fire caused the clouds of smoke covered 30 miles area while the 5 miles radius around the rig was contaminated by the spill oil . The situation changed so rapidly that the well head remains open resulting in substantial amount of oil spill eliminating the aquatic life of the region with estimated death tool of 8000 animals. After many unsuccessful attempts BP was able to cap the well on 15 July stopping the oil flow. The Deep-Water Horizon was 9 years old unit specially designed for the offshore drilling. It was a massive floating structure with the capability to operate up to the 2400 meter deep and its drilling capability was 9100 meter. The structure was manufactured by the heavy industry department of Hyundai. BP was using this semi-submersible drilling unit by leasing it from Transocean from March 2008 to September 2010. BP took the period of three months to completely cease the oil flow into the ocean on 15th July but up to this time 4.9 million barrels of oil which is approximately equal to 780 million litres has been spilled into the ocean. During the span of three month almost 210,000 gallons of hydro chemical leaked on daily basis in Gulf Ocean. This oil spilled caused the adverse effect on the eco system which disturbed the 40% sea food supply in United States . The US Government was quick to response and Obama announced $20 billion fund as a response to cater the environmental disaster. BP also acknowledged the situation admitting that it will pay for the cleanup cost. Over 30,000 people worked across the coast to collect the oil, took primitive measures to save the lives of animals but unfortunately disaster was so critical that the effect of spill still effecting the environment.

What according to you are the reasons for the project failure?

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