Members of Congress Blast BP Execs as Worker Takes U.S. Fifth Amendment, Declines to Testify at Hearing

摘要

Two top BP executives took a barrage of criticism at the hands of U.S. Representatives who questioned the British oil giant's inadequate maintenance of the Prudhoe Bay oil gathering lines, which were shut down earlier this year. A third BP official, engineer Richard Woollam, invoked his Fifth Amendment right under the U.S. Constitution not to testify before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Thursday.