Is Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Responsible For BP Oil Spill?

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By Casey Gane-McCalla June 18, 2010 3:25 pm

Halliburton has been ripping off the U.S.A. for years during both the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Now there is an article that speculates that Halliburton is responsible for the BP oil spill.

From NOLA.com

In the most recent revelation, Times-Picayune reporter David Hammer found that BP chose to forgo a crucial test of the cement linings in the Deepwater Horizon’s well. The contractor who was hired to perform the cement bond log test said BP officials sent the workers home without conducting it. The test, which checks the strength of cement protecting the well’s metal casing, could have revealed problems with the job, according to congressional testimony by a Halliburton executive.

In addition, schematics of the cementing design provided to Congress by contractor Halliburton are missing a key seal between two sections of metal casing. Experts said that would be a design flaw that would allow natural gas to blast into the well undetected and cause the rig’s explosion.

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1. Halliburton also purchased an oil cleanup company in the Gulf just weeks before the explosion.

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2. K&R...n/t

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3. Numerous sources say Haliburton and Transocean warned BP and objected to practices.

supposedly when a well is cemented the bore must be kept in the center with spacers. Given the design of the well and how gassy it was Halliburton told BP to insert 3 times as many spacers as they had planned to. HB protested several times and warned that if it's not centered BP will get gas leakage from this well. BP ignored them and told Halliburton (the concrete contractor) they need just do what they are told and being paid to do... BP is the boss.

Short story: HB warned BP. BP did not heed the warnings. HB was 100% right.
IMO, the responsibility for this disaster should not be pinned on Halliburton.

If you hired a contractor to do a job for you and do not give them something worthwhile to work with (against their concern) it's tough to blame them when their product fails

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4. BTW, the acoustic cement logging Schlumberger did not perform is a MMS REQUIRED procedure