In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down
by Stanley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald ’87
Bloomberg Press, January 2011
In 2005, 15 workers were killed when BP’s Texas City Refi nery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. In 2010, 11 men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Is it possible that the implosion of BP’s oil well on April 10, 2010, could have been avoided? In In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down, Stanley
Reed—a journalist who has covered BP for over a decade—and Bloomberg News investigative reporter Alison Fitzgerald answer not only that question, but also examine why these disasters happen to BP so much more than to other large oil companies. The story of how the Gulf disaster happened, and of the behind-the- scenes management of the company, is an object lesson that the world will be learning from for decades.