Refinery blast: BP chief must answer questions, says court

Outgoing BP chief executive John Browne has been ordered to answer questions about the company’s Texas City plant explosion in 2005 that killed 15 people and injured hundreds more.

Mr Browne was previously ordered to give a deposition, but it was put on hold by the Texas appeals court when lawyers for Eva Rowe, whose parents were killed by the blast, settled with London-based BP in November.