Jack B. Moore Western Hemisphere Operations. Moore was the president and CEO of the company already in 2010 when a BP oil rig exploded (called the Deepwater Horizon oil spill). It killed eleven workers and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. The company paid BP over $80 million in a negotiated settlement. Moore has a B.B.A. from the University of Houston. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Moore serves on the board of directors for the American Petroleum Institute (AP!)l,
Oil reserves in Mexico these problems, in September 2007, Mexico’s Congress approved reforms including a reduction in the taxes levied on Pemex. Most of Mexico's production decline involves one enormous oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. From 1979 to 2007, Mexico produced most of its oil from the supergiant Cantarell Field, which used to be the second-biggest oil field in the world by production. Because of falling production, in 1997 Pemex started a massive nitrogen injection project to maintain oil flow, which now consumes half the nitrogen produced in the world. As a result of nitrogen injection, production at Cantarell rose from in