BP asks Halliburton to pay for Gulf of Mexico spill

[dipsydoodle]

Oil giant BP has asked its contractor Halliburton to pay for all costs and damages that arose from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The claims were made in a filing by BP's lawyer Don Haycraft in a US Federal court.

BP and Halliburton are locked in a legal battle with a trial expected this year to settle damages claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16388548

BP sues Halliburton over £26 billion pound oil spill bill

(Reuters) - BP has called on contractor Halliburton to pay all costs and expenses it incurred to clean up the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which the oil major previously put at around $42 billion (26 billion pounds).

Halliburton cemented the failed well that caused the United State's biggest offshore oil spill.

In a U.S. court filing, BP said it was suing to recover costs and expenses from cleaning up the oil spill, lost profits, and "all other costs and damages incurred by BP related to the Deepwater Horizon incident and resulting oil spill."

It did not specify an amount and it was not clear how the latest suit differed from a previous one brought last year. A BP spokesman declined to put a figure on the costs sought in the latest filing, but said the "documents speak for themselves."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/03/uk-bp-halliburton-idUKTRE80200X20120103 Tue Jan 3, 2012 9:11am GMT

[Rex]

1. If corporations are people, can we declare BP

AND Halliburton sociopathic?

On how to spot the symptoms.

•Glibness/superficial charm
•Manipulative and conning
•Grandiose sense of self
•Pathological lying
•Lack of remorse, shame or guilt
•Shallow emotions
•Incapacity for love
•Need for stimulation
•Callousness/lack of empathy
•Poor behavioral controls/impulsive nature
•Early behavior problems/juvenile delinquency
•Irresponsibility/unreliability
•Promiscuous sexual behavior/infidelity
•Lack of realistic life plan/parasitic lifestyle
•Criminal or entrepreneurial versatility
•Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
•Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
•Authoritarian
•Secretive
•Paranoid
•Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
•Conventional appearance
•Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
•Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
•Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
•Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
•Incapable of real human attachment to another
•Unable to feel remorse or guilt
•Narcissism, grandiosity (self-importance not based on achievements)
•May state readily that their goal is to rule the world



Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_know_if_someone_is_a_sociopath#ixzz1iO5Ccjbq

[DFW]

2. BP will never get a cent, but their argument has teeth

They can point to a long string of precedents where Halliburton has cut corners to the detriment
of its clients. In Iraq there are numerous cases where Halliburton was cited for skimping to save
money, and in the process delivering to our military personnel contaminated food and drinking
water as well as inferior armor to protect their vehicles from bombs. Illness, injury, and surely
some deaths resulted.

Legal arguments love precedent to bolster them, and Halliburton's short-changing the USA in Iraq
is a rich and conspicuous trail of precedent.

But Cheney is no idiot. Halliburton moved their headquarters from Texas to Dubai several years
ago (he's SUCH a patriot, don't y'all know). BP can whine and sue and PROVE all they want. They
won't get a dinar out of Halliburton, I'll bet.

[IMG][/IMG]

[Atman]

3. All those happy-smiley tourism ads are costing BP a fortune!

Oh, wait...advertising is tax-deductible, so it is actually U.S. taxpayers paying for them. Never mind.

[Fearless]

4. I hope it splits both ways

And both bloodsucking companies have a sizable chunk returned to the American people.

[lonestarnot]

5. I hope they eat each other.

[justabob]

11. me too nt

[Mr Dixon]

6. JOD

Now that is the JOKE of the Day, ROFL

[midnight]

7. I would like to see how this progresses....

[FarCenter]

8. It was Haliburton's cement job that failed and caused the leak

And Haliburton did not run a log to confirm that the cement job was good before leaving the rig.

[Nihil]

9. +1

(Though there are enough Halliburton supporters around here that
would prefer that only the name "BP" is associated with the screwup.)

[Amonester]

10. To be fair, there wouldn't have been such a disastrous "horizon" without BP's multibillionnaires

running for it in the first place.

Maybe later, but BP's vampire$ initiated that one.