Would you believe me if I told you that BP published an oil spill board game in the 1970s? In what has to be one of the worst marketing moves of all time, BP actually was stupid enough to issue a wildly unpopular board game allowing aspiring tycoons to explore for oil, build platforms and lay pipelines. But beware! Nascent oil magnates must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1,000,000.’
$1,000,000 for clean-up costs? Was this BP's way of trying to lobby for a cap lower than the $75MM cap still in place today? (I jest)
Seriously, the very existence of this game promising "blow-out" adventures should be taken as evidence that the BP gurus were well aware of the risks of offshore drilling yet consciously chose to ignore them.
[metro.co.uk]
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