BP vice-president grilled about safety strategy

Frustrated Gulf oil spill investigators in the US lashed out at BP over its refusal to explain who was in charge of safety at the Deepwater Horizon rig.

“Everybody in charge, nobody in charge,” summed up Coast Guard Captain Hung Nguyen, after the co-chairman of the investigation board failed to obtain the answer he wanted during a grilling of high-ranking BP staff in Houston, Texas, yesterday.