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29 Aug 2006

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Reuters

BP's Browne must testify at Texas blast trial: judge

A Texas judge on Monday ordered BP...Chief Executive John Browne to give a video deposition and be available to testify at trial in a lawsuit brought by victims of the 2005 Texas City plant explosion that killed 15 people and injured more than 100...[she] also ordered BP Global Refining Director John Manzoni to give a video deposition and be available to testify...BP said it will appeal the ruling, arguing that executives at the appropriate level already have been responding to questions...Plaintiffs' attorney Brent Coon said...[both] Browne and Manzoni have information about "how that plant operated and the problems associated with that plant. It goes back to budget cuts Manzoni and Browne ordered that compromised plant maintenance,"...