BP has announced the appointment of a watchdog to monitor safety improvements at its five US refineries. Duane Wilson is taking up the post following the recommendation of an independent panel headed by former US secretary of state James Baker.Mr Wilson is a retired vice-president of Texas-based ConocoPhillips, the world’s fifth largest oil refiner. The move follows an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery in March 2005, which left 15 people dead. It comes just a week after BP’s CEO of 12 years, John Browne, resigned after admitting lying to a court over how he had met Canadian Jeff Chevalier, with whom he had a four-year relationship. Mr Wilson, who sat on the 11-man Baker Panel, will monitor the company’s progress towards improving safety in its US refining operations. The Baker Panel, which reported in January, found “material process safety deficiencies” at all five of its US refineries. Image source: news.sky.com

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