Halliburton created oil well problems before BP spill

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Panel Says Firms Knew of Cement Flaws Before Spill
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: October 28, 2010

WASHINGTON — Halliburton officials knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Thursday.

In the first official finding of responsibility for the blowout, which killed 11 workers and led to the biggest offshore oil spill in American history, the commission staff determined that Halliburton had conducted three laboratory tests that indicated that the cement mixture did not meet industry standards.

The result of at least one of those tests was given on March 8 to BP, which failed to act upon it, the panel’s lead investigator, Fred H. Bartlit Jr., said in a letter delivered to the commissioners on Thursday. “There is no indication that Halliburton highlighted to BP the significance of the foam stability data or that BP personnel raised any questions about it,” Mr. Bartlit said in his report.

Another Halliburton cement test, carried out about a week before the blowout of the well on April 20, also found the mixture to be unstable, meaning it was unlikely to set properly in the well, but those findings were never sent to BP, Mr. Bartlit found after reviewing previously undisclosed documents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/us/29spill.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

[FirstLight]

1. WILL we see anyone perp-walked for these crimes?

so many ways this company has fucked the world, from iraq to afganistan to home...WHEN will they pay????

oh ya, i forgot they are THE Military-Industrial Complex incarnate...they will never pay...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. they will pay when more people know what they've done...

It's general knowledge at DU but the general public knows nothing of Dick Cheney and his links to Haliburton. They were the sole contractor in Iraq for years.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Halliburton embodies RepubliCorp Family Values

Ptoooey.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. thanks for the kick. this needs more exposer

[SpiralHawk]

7. Every American should know a RepubliCorp did this to our Gulf of Mexico

And hold them accountable and responsible...in the courts and at the ballot box.

Those who vote for Republicons or the TeaBagger subsidary of suckerpuppets are voting for more corporate massive malfeasance like this...

[madokie]

5. I've often wondered if maybe the dick

and his company done this on purpose in hopes of stopping the drilling in the gulf so as to increase our importation of oil from the likes of SA and his friends there. After all Saudi Arabia was where the dick was when this happened, best I remember. He left for SA a few days before the explosion again best I remember.

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6. This will get ignored under all the Code Red - Yemen, NATIONAL EMERGENCY!!!