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Cost cuts ‘left BP open to disaster’

By Sheila McNulty in Houston and Ed Crooks in London

Published: March 20 2007 15:04 | Last updated: March 21 2007 01:03

Cost-cutting at BP’s Texas City refinery left it vulnerable to a catastrophe before the explosion in March 2005 that killed 15 people, a US government agency said on Tuesday.

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