Halliburton Cement Work Faulted in BP Oil Spill
Oct 29, 2010 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
Halliburton Co., the contractor that performed cement work aboard BP’s doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig, has admitted that it did not perform an important test on the cement that was used to seal the undersea well. The cement’s failure to prevent oil and gas from entering the well has been identified as one of the causes of the April 20 explosion that spawned the massive BP oil spill. This development is raising a lot of eyebrows, because up until now, Halliburton has been...
