From Mr Richard Berkowitz.

Sir, In recent months the Financial Times has provided extensive coverage of the failure of BP to address safety issues adequately in its US operations, most notably BP's Texas City refinery and Prudhoe Bay pipelines. The lack of safety measures taken, as reported in the FT, is truly appalling. However, it is contrary to my personal experience with other parts of BP, such as the Alaska Tanker Company, a vessel operator BP helped create, whose ownership is 25 per cent BP, and whose exclusive client in the Alaska oil tanker trade is BP.