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    Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989 Chuck Meacham, a regional biologist for the Alaska Department of fish and game, told the Washington post’s Bill McAllister at the time of the Exxon spill (shin, https://www.washingtonpost.com ). The state of Alaska sued Exxon over the spill, and the federal government indicted the company for violating the Clean Water Act ( shin, https://www.washingtonpost.com )Both Exxon and Mobil began as part of the standard oil trust established by John D. Kockefeller in 1882…

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    including ten million migratory shore birds and waterfowl, hundreds of sea otters, porpoises and sea lions, and several varieties of whales. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill was an Irreplaceable loss for the Alaskan people. That oil spill destroyed the whole ecological environment of Alaska. It has affected to general people, tourist, fishing industry and many more. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill directly affected to Stakeholders. According to the National Wildlife Federation, the death toll of individual…

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    CHAPTER 2 INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY The Chronology of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Incident The timeline of this incident will be based on the ‘National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Report’. In the year of 1989 of March 22 (11.35pm), the Exxon Valdez arrived at the berth 5, Aleyska Marine Terminal to load a cargo of Alaska North Slope crude oil. Figure 2.1: The Exxon Valdez (Shigenake, G. 2014) The total load of 1.3 Million barrels of oil took approximately a day to complete filling…

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    Prince William Sound, Alaska (Seitel, 2011, p.100). A 987-foot tanker from Exxon Mobil Corp., the Exxon Valdez, spilled 260,000 barrels of oil after the intoxicated ship captain “ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez” (Seitel, 2011, p.101). The oil spill damaged over 1,300 square miles of coast line and caused the death of various sea life, including over 4,000 Alaskan sea otters (Seitel, 2012, p.101). Exxon Mobil’s public relations approach to the crisis received…

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    more than 10,000 organisms, polluted the environment, and much more. Also, the Exxon Valdez oil spill has been ranked the thirty-sixth oil spill in history. Which shows that it has done much harm to the society, and is very deadly. If this had not have happened, the world would be looked at in a different way. Oil can be very toxic, making many areas, and species suffer. Also, oil spills are very scary, and the Exxon Valdez is a great example of scary. It is is about 120,000m^3. According to…

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    On March 24, 1989, in Prince William Sound Alaska, the Exxon Valdez was moving South West subsequent to leaving Port Valdez. The ship was carrying fifty million gallons of raw petroleum. The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker that was heading to Long Beach California. The tank had struck a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, which resulted in the spilling of 260,000 to 750,000 barrel of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez spilled 10.9 million gallons out of its 53 million gallon payload of Crude oil. Eight…

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    TWO DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONS Task 1 – Purpose (P1) Organization 1 Profit-making organization: Exxon Mobil ExxonMobil is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company. The organization uses technology and innovation to help meet the world’s growing energy needs. It operates globally and within the private sector of the economy and is often referred to as a ‘Private Empire’. Exxon Mobil holds an industry-leading inventory of resources, integrated refinery and produces…

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    Exxon Supply Chain

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    (ExxonMobil-CEO, 2013) Figure 4: Return on Average Capital Employed Source: Exxon Mobil Annual Report (ExxonMobil-CEO, 2013) Supply chain management was began in Exxon Mobil when they started to define world-wide projects, therefore, the need of co-operating with third-parties was required. Exxon Mobil is working with 160,000 suppliers in entire the world. Suppliers’ capability based on operational criticality and the level of risk associated…

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    Chevron Corporation History Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. The company has businesses in more than 180 countries. Chevron Corporation's businesses are every aspect of the geothermal, oil and gas energy industries including exploration and production of energy. It is one of world's largest oil companies. The foundation of the company goes back to 1879. The company was performing under the name of Pacific Coast Oil Company back then. Despite of company's…

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    Exxon Mobil Case Study

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    1870 by John D. Rockefeller in Ohio (Exxon). Not too long after, in 1879 Standard bought three-quarters of Vacuum Oil company, which later became Mobil (Exxon). Three years later in 1882, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil into a trust which included the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which later became Exxon, as well as Vacuum, and many others (Exxon). However, following a Supreme Court decision the company was split into 34 unrelated businesses in 1911 (Exxon). At the end of the century in…

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