MARK JAMES L.
UMALI ACC 312B – BSA 3
REFLECTION
This paperwork contains the answer to the question of whether the management
of BP Company or the Transocean has accountabilities to their shareholders, as their
agent, and to other stakeholders over the incident. Also covers the essence of this topic
or subject to an individual as a student or professional.
The Movie “DEEPWATER HORIZON” that actually happened ten years ago
show the selfishness and irresponsible of the supervisors of the BP company’ Kaluza
and Vidirine who have been charge for manslaughter of eleven people died due the
explosion of the titular oil rig. Kaluza the supervisor of BP company insisted to continue
the operation even the test say it is a bad test, he didn’t consider the first negative test
that turn out to be a bad test. Kaluza uses his authority so that the Transocean staff
would follow to his orders to start the operation. Jimmy Jarrell tried to stop at most the
incident together with Mike Williams his CET but they failed to lessen the damage to the
Transocean rig and the massive blowout of mud cause the destruction of Transocean in
the Deepwater Horizon. That incident maybe could have been prevented if Jimmy
Jarrell the Captain/leader of the Transocean who lead safety for how many years in
structure have opposed to what the supervisors wants and didn’t give permission to
start the operation in excavation of muds. Due to unparallel negative test that turn out to
be a good and bad test Jimmy must stand up for another negative test to fully ensure
safety for his men like Caleb who was the first person to notice that there’s already a
mud flow to the pipe. Also, if only the cement that have been put to the oil rig have been
fully tested to ensure that mud won’t blast due to high pressure it could turn out to
different outcomes. And may there will no casualties. The bottom line is if only the
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supervisor that BP company sent into Transocean were responsible and selfless person
that care about the safety of the other not who only thinks about money and no matter
what the outcome is. The answer to the question whether the BP company is
accountable to their Shareholders, as their agent, is clearly yes because for what their
supervisors have did and decide they should take responsibilities of it as well though the
supervisors uphold the image of the BP company and takes authority to command by
mocking the staff to do a report that to destroy the reputation of the worker in the
Transocean. BP company is liable to extend that the shareholder and other stakeholder
have invested to them for the operation to be done in Deepwater Horizon, the billions
they invest must be refund to the shareholder and other stakeholder because as agent
they are responsible to bring the best service they can provide to their principal
shareholder and other stake holder. The principal employs them to perform the service,
therefore, anything happened to what the investor have invested then the agent must
take responsibilities and should be accountable.
Being an Agent of some person is not an easy task because all the trust and
burden have been put all on your back, any incident may happen will be on your hands
and blame you for that. So, for the trust given by the principal to become their agent,
safety must be the first on the line to be considered the most in doing an operation.
Whenever a person became an agent of someone, he should be ready to take all
accountabilities might happen and bare all the responsibilities. Because somewhat
someday one of us could be an agent of others as well so we should be a responsible,
selfless and care about other not what we only want to do or being told to do.
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