Oil Firm Apologises For Spill

China's biggest oil company apologized for an explosion that polluted a northeastern river with benzene and prompted the government to cut off running water to 3.8 million people. Zeng Yukang, deputy general manager of China National Petroleum Corp., expressed "sympathy and deep apologies" to the people of Harbin and others in China's northeast whose water supply was shut down due to the huge benzene slick in the Songhua River.