Having started my blog three weeks ago with a post on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how they were flooding the media with their own videos I thought it only appropriate to come full circle and talk about how the Gulf Spill is losing interest with the American public.
It’s all over so we can start joking about it now, right? Well, as the news circulates about the temporary stemming of the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, elite gudz, a self described Design Studio Specializing in Creative Production and Consulting have launched an app named Plug the BP Oil Spill.
Three months is a very long time in the media world without any good news. That is how long it has taken for BP to stem the flow of oil into the Gulf. This brief respite, all be it temporarily while BP tests a new well cap, has caused a huge stir in the twittersphere. I conducted a trending search for the word “Gulf” as I started writing this post and already there have been 6,527 more tweets on this subject by the end of this paragraph.
I view of recent events Big Oil has become a four letter word.
In one of probably his biggest political gaffs of his career, Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for what he called a shakedown, referencing the $20 Billion fund set aside to compensate people affected by the BP spill. Continue reading
You’ve probably heard the buzz about Josh Fox‘s documentary Gasland that recently aired on HBO. This feature casts doubt on the practices of the natural gas exploration industry and in particular on a procedure know as hydraulic fracturing (fracting). For a small budget documentary it has received critical acclaim including a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading
As the Gulf of Mexico continues to experience what is now the United States worst ecological and environmental disaster, and following the rather untimely announcement by Fortune Magazine that BP is the fourth most profitable company in the world, a question frequently being discussed is can BP’s image been saved and what should they be doing right now about it? Continue reading
For the second year running, Microsoft and Accenture have released the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Collaboration Survey. The report makes interesting reading on how decision makers and professionals within the industry view the benefits of social media.
In an industry that is seeing an increasingly aging work force Continue reading
