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Security in need of refining
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A MAJOR BREACH of security at one of BP's biggest oil refineries went unreported for more than a fortnight, it emerged last week. The company has confirmed that thieves cut a hole in a fence and drove a vehicle into its Grangemouth plant in Scotland on 7 May. The vehicle was first reported to be a "large lorry", but a company spokesman now says the size of the hole in the fence
indicated it was more likely to have been a pickup .
Thousands of tankers go to and from Grangemouth every year and the potentially disastrous effects of poor security at the site have been highlighted by local MP Michael Connarty who warned that a "lorry full of fertiliser — a bomb" could easily be driven onto the site. He told the BBC: "Quite
frankly, if you wanted to hit a target that supplied its own combustible material then you would pick the plant at Grangemouth."
A spokesman adds that BP did not intentionally keep the incident under wraps.
"The police were well aware of what happened and we certainly made no effort to keep it secret," he says. "That would have been quite improper."