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Article

15 Jan 2007

Author:
Michael Harrison, Independent [UK]

Texas report to maul BP management

BP management will be sharply criticised in a report to be published tomorrow by the former US secretary of state James Baker into the fire at its Texas City refinery two years ago which killed 15 workers and injured hundreds more. The damning report, which was commissioned by BP itself in the wake of the disaster, will point to serious safety failures in the running of the company's US refinery operations, and make a long list of recommendations for action. However, the 250-page report is not thought to criticise individual directors by name, and suggestions that it could lead directly to casualties at board level have been played down.