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BP's Well From Hell Macondo Named After A Town That Vanished

Friday, June 25, 2010 3:22

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(“One hundred years of refusing to acknowledge the world outside of their village had destroyed them; and races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on Earth.” Gabriel García Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude).

In many ways, BP’s rise and impending fall metaphorically mirror the rambling, fatalistic plot of Marquez’s classic novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

BP named the ill-fated oil well “Macondo,” which was simply a code name chosen at random for the project that no one ever thought about much. However, retrospectively, it is as if the name was attained by consulting an oracle, and at that instant, the oil well and BP’s destinies were inextricably linked.

Macondo was not just any innocuous name randomly plucked out of a hat filled with different names. Macondo contained an ominous message – an intrinsic message of an apocalyptic nature that would come to pass if unheeded or unrecognised.

Macondo was the name of the cursed village in Marquez’s novel, which in the end, every last trace of the village and its inhabitants were swept away by a violent storm.

“It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.”*

From the onset, people working on the drilling platform said the Macondo well was troublesome, unpredictable, and one concerned worker even told his wife that it was a “cursed well.”

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