Halliburton May Be Culprit In Oil Rig Explosion

Huffington Post by Jeff Muskus | Apr. 30, 2010 (News Report)

Halliburton has become a primary suspect in the investigation into the oil rig explosion that has devastated the Gulf Coast, the Wall Street Journal reports. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Pollution, Law, U.S. House of Representatives, Oil and Gas
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Apr 30, 2010 - 11:51 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Samuel W. Velsor IV (review), Randy Morrow (review), Chris Finnie (review), Joel Kulenkamp (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Apr 30, 2010 - 11:53 AM PDT

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Chris Finnie
4.3
 by Chris Finnie - May. 4, 2010

Interesting historical information on similar problems. Good investigative journalism.

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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - May. 4, 2010

This article gives details of Halliburton's connections to the BP Gulf oil rig disaster.

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Dwight Rousu
3.9
 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 30, 2010

This followup story includes information about a similar and similarly caused drilling blowout in Australia, that should have informed the Obama drilling advocates earlier of the dangers they were approving.

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Samuel W. Velsor IV
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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Apr. 30, 2010

Ha;;iburton again. Will there be charges and if so will they stick.

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Joel Kulenkamp
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 by Joel Kulenkamp - May. 4, 2010

I like how it shows the actual verbatim letter.

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