Halliburton may have been aware of problems with the cement used on the Deepwater Horizon before a major explosion that led to the worst oil spill in US history.

Halliburton said that it does believe the foam cement design used on the Macondo well was the cause of the incident. ... Halliburton Says Cement Was Fine Oct 29, 2010, 12:01pm EDT.

BP's report also mentioned a cement test Halliburton performed in mid-April, but it appears BP obtained the results after the accident and considered its methods flawed.

Halliburton (HAL), the oilfield services company, was hired by BP to seal the bottom of its deepwater well with cement. (The failure of that well that spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.

In its statement, the company said: “Halliburton originated oilfield cementing and leads the world in effective, efficient delivery of zonal isolation and engineering for the life of the well ...

BP and Halliburton used the cement anyway - a decision that may have contributed to the uncontrolled surge of natural gas from the well that ignited April 20, killing 11 people and triggering the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Halliburton Co. acknowledged that it skipped a critical test on the final formulation of cement used to seal BP’s oil well before it blew out catastrophically in the Gulf of ...

Halliburton, the oil field services giant that provided the cement for BP’s Macondo well, knew months before the explosion and spill that the cement mixture used on the well was not stable ...

Oilfield services giant Halliburton, one of the key players in South Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale, has deployed nearly 100 light-duty compressed natural gas trucks across its U.S. field locations ...

A federal judge is ordering tests to be performed as soon as possible on cement Halliburton Co. used to seal the BP well that later blew out catastrophically in the Gulf of Mexico.

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 ...