And it appears to conflict with statements made by Halliburton Co., which has said its tests showed the cement mix was stable. The company instead has said BP's well design and operations were ...

Halliburton admits they knew the cement mixture used to seal the bottom of the BP oil rig in the Gulf was unstable, but went ahead with the project anyway. The admission comes after presidential ...

Weeks before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, tests pinpointed problems with the stability of Halliburton's cement foam used to seal BP's doomed Macondo well ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP Plc's doomed Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history ...

Washington (CNN)-- Oil giant BP and contractor Halliburton knew of potential flaws in the cement slurry used to reinforce the oil well below the Deepwater Horizon rig before it exploded in April ...

In announcing the plea, the Justice Department also announced that it was accusing Anthony Badalamenti, who was Halliburton’s cementing technology director at the time of the blowout ...

Testing conducted by oil giant Halliburton on BP’s Macondo well before the April spill in the Gulf of Mexico showed that a cement product used to seal the well would be unstable, according to a ...

The oil services contractor Halliburton Co. admits it never performed a crucial test of the final cement mixture used on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded in the largest offshore oil spill ...

Halliburton’s cementing manager for the Gulf of Mexico Richard Vargo registered his disagreement with the flow through the shoe track and up the casing. From the “few pieces of data we have ...

HALLIBURTON has rejected findings by a Chevron laboratory in Houston that, according to the White House Oil Spill Commission, imply the nitrogen foam cement in BP’s Macondo well was unstable ...

HOUSTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP Plc's doomed Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in U.S ...

Halliburton used flawed cement in BP’s Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in US history. While not absolving BP of ...