Abstract
The tragedy of Deepwater Horizon happened on 20 April 2010 has been deeply heeded in the people around the world because of the shock of losing the rig with 11 fatalities and following environmental impact with nearly 5 million barrels of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This incident resulted the Moratorium of offshore oil & gas drilling activities and influenced not only to the offshore oil & gas operators and contractors but the enterprises and their employees of the Gulf coast States.
Everybody those who tied with oil business might not be able to realize how it could happen to the combination of Oilfield giants, BP and Transocean who supposed to have advanced operational management systems, and concerned to know the detailed sequence and causes of the incident.
It seems to be identified through the internal investigations by the concerned party and investigations by Federal Authorities that the underlying/root causes of the incident are at the failures of implementing the management system and defect/flaw of the system.
This paper will study the Management failures at the Macondo operations which are considered to be the underlying/root causes of the tragedy by reviewing the released incident investigation reports, improved offshore regulations, legislated new rules in the States and, finally attempt to find the way to eliminate the failure of management to prevent the hazards become incidents.
