The BP oil spill: Could software be a culprit?

Don Shafer; Phillip A. Laplante

doi:10.1109/MITP.2010.136

The BP oil spill: Could software be a culprit?

Don Shafer, Phillip A. Laplante

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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, is it possible a software failure could have contributed to this disaster?

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5593032
Pages (from-to)	6-9
Number of pages	4
Journal	IT Professional
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2010.136
State	Published - Sep 2010

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Hardware and Architecture
Computer Science Applications

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