Monday, June 28, 2010

The cost of cutting corners

This is something they should be teaching in bean counter school.
BP said it had spent $300 million on its Gulf of Mexico oil spill response effort in the past three days, hitting the $100 million per day spend rate for the first time and bringing its total bill to $2.65 billion so far.

The figures, which BP released in a statement today, include the cost of trying to cap the well, clean up the environmental damage caused by the leaking crude and pay compensation to those affected by the spill.
While the exact cause of The Hayward Blowout is not yet known, many educated guesses have suggested that an attempt to save $1-2 Million has resulted in costs up to $100 Million+ a day. Try justifying that risk/reward at your next managers meeting.

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