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Political Factoid
Houston-based Halliburton
Energy Services played a
role in the massive 2010
BP Gulf oil well disaster.*
- Halliburton had designed
and installed the cement slurry
for the final production casing
string at the BP well.
- Halliburton subsequently pleaded
guilty to criminal charges that
subsequent to the explosion,
it had destroyed evidence
about the role the Halliburtion
cement slurry design could
have played in the oil well
blowout.
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Worst oil spill in U.S. history:
- Claimed 11 lives
- Spewed over 200 million gallons
of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
- Affected fishing and derivative
businesses all along the Gulf Coast
- Affected tourism as far away as
the Atlantic Coast of Florida
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