DocumentCode
1340178
Title
The BP Oil Spill: Could Software be a Culprit?
Author
Shafer, Don ; Laplante, Phillip A.
Volume
12
Issue
5
fYear
2010
Firstpage
6
Lastpage
9
Abstract
No one yet knows what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and poured millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But considering the fact that offshore oil rigs comprise dozens of complex subsystems that use or are controlled by software, it is possible a software failure could have contributed to this disaster.
Keywords
control engineering computing; failure analysis; marine engineering; offshore installations; oil drilling; petroleum industry; BP; Gulf of Mexico; deepwater horizon oil rig explosion; offshore oil rig; oil spill; software failure; Control systems; Drilling; Offshore installations; Petroleum; Safety; Software; Information technology; interface standards; oil spill; software;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IT Professional
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1520-9202
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MITP.2010.136
Filename
5593032
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