It was Halliburton

The chain reaction behind what some fear will be the worst oil spill in the industry's history was revealed by Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who worked for the British oil company as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s. He was passed documents and a tape from the BP inquiry by others within the industry.

According to the account he has pieced together, a group of BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the project's safety record while, far below, the exploration well was being converted for oil production.

The workers set and then tested a cement seal at the bottom of the well, he believes, but - as they reduced the pressure in the drill column and attempted to set a second seal below the sea floor - a chemical reaction caused by the setting cement created heat.

That heat converted a pocket of methane crystals into a bubble of compressed gas which grew as it rose up the drill column.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7696596/BP-oil-disaster-how-a-deadly-methane-bubble-triggered-explosion.html

That is what I get from what I have been reading.

I just knew that their negligence HAD to be a contributory factor....

I hope that Cheney still owns lots of their stock and he loses everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halliburton to Buy Boots & Coots, Adding Oil-Well Firefighting Services
by on APRIL 10, 2010

By Vivek Shankar April 10 (Bloomberg) — Halliburton Co. agreed to buy Boots & Coots Inc. for about $240.4 million in stock and cash, adding equipment and services to fight oil-well fires. Boots & Coots holders will receive $1.73 in cash and $1.27 in Halliburton stock per share, Halliburton said in a statement yesterday. The combined price, $3, is 28 percent more than Boots & Coots’ closing price yesterday. Both companies are based in Houston. The addition of Boots & Coots will allow Halliburton to offer a more complete suite of services to customers, said Marc Edwards , a senior vice president. Halliburton is the world’s second-largest oil-field services company after Schlumberger Ltd. Edward “Coots” Matthews , who died on March 31 at 86, founded the company in 1978 along with Asger “Boots” Hansen . For 20 years prior to that, they had worked with Red Adair, whose skill at battling oil-well fires was portrayed in the 1968 movie “Hellfighters,” starring John Wayne as Adair. Both Matthews and Hansen were involved in fighting well- known oil-well blowouts, including the “Devil’s Cigarette Lighter” in Gassil Touil, Algeria, in 1961 and another at Lake Maracaibo in 1991. They also extinguished the fires from 700 oil wells in Kuwait, blazes set by retreating Iraqi troops near the end of the first Gulf War in 1991, according to the company. For 2009, Boots & Coots reported net income of $6 million, or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $195.1 million. Halliburton said the boards of both companies had approved the transaction and it will close this summer. Boots & Coots had 80.13 million shares outstanding as of March 2, according to Bloomberg data. The stock fell 3 cents to $2.35 yesterday. It’s up 42 percent for the year. Halliburton fell 9 cents to $31.57 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. The shares have climbed 4.9 percent this year. To contact the reporter on this story: Vivek Shankar in San Francisco at vshankar3@bloomberg.net


http://industry-news.org/2010/04/10/halliburton-to-buy-boots-coots-adding-oil-well-firefighting-services/


Coinkydink? or follow the money ?

at least trying to put them out...

maybe they could stop this under sea gusher.

Deepwater Cementing Considerations to Prevent Hydrates Destabillity




Can anyone put this in video form, I'm clueless on how to do that.

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Especially considering the fact that they (Haliburton) bought a well-know rig fire fighting corp. (See modmom's post above).

after all why do you think cheney went to LA with scalia on that hunting trip. You know the one where scalia came back and voted against making cheney show just who attended that energy meeting. It had to be Halliburton and cheney just wanted to protect all that stock = I heard up to 40,000 shares.

BP has a history of lies, and they lied to Haliburton.

Does this exhonerate Haliburton? They have blood on their hands. But in this case, they were given the specs and made a concrete seal for one pressure/depth assessment, when it was actually roughly twice the depth

so it was BP, AND this project would not have gone forward if BP had not been exempted by Int Dept from required Environmental Impact Study

that the drillers went down almost 36,000 feet instead of the 18,000 feet as planned. When the Haliburton crew calculated the amount and type of cement, the calculation was for the 18,000 foot planned hole. Wonder what the pressure differences might have been when this one blew?

BP has done this before, drilled far deeper than planned and failed to inform the calculating crews of this fact. Result was the same.

In a real investigation, rather than a whitewash, BP would come out the final villains. In the meantime, look at the damage being caused.

So far, no one has mentioned what effect, if any, the outflow from the Mississippi River is doing to this spill.

off the coast of Australia?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/halliburton-may-be-culpri_n_558481.html

Last year, Halliburton was also implicated for its cementing work prior to a massive blowout off the coast of Australia, where a rig caught on fire and spewed hundreds of thousands of gallons into the sea for ten weeks.

In that incident, workers apparently failed to properly pump cement into the well, according to Elmer Danenberger, former head of regulatory affairs for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, who testified to an Australian commission probing that accident.

"The problem with the cementing job was one of the root causes in the Australian blowout," Danenberger told Huffington Post, adding that the rig crew didn't pick up on indications of an influx of fluids coming back in after they cemented the casing. "The crew didn't pick up on them and didn't take action."

Halliburton declined to return a detailed request for comment from Huffington Post.

If Halliburton didn't already know, which they had to - there's a white doy in merh's PP post pretty much right on top of the problem area. The profit via cost overruns must be a tremendous markup on a cost+ contract when knowing the difference in advance. For all these kinds of war & distress profiteers it is all one big gooey "it could take six days, six weeks...I doubt six months" frame of mind

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/deepwater-horizon-disaster-directly-links-h

The failed blowout valve? It was manufactured by Cameron International. One look at Cameron's board should tell you all you need to know. They're all Bush/Cheney contractor cronies, here and around the world.

They no longer had to sweat the small stuff

Just wondering.....

"Who benefits"? ... Economically? The oil companies. Politically? Not Obama -- he defended offshore drilling as "accident-proof". Politcally? Not Obama -- the economic chaos that will result in the Southeast will consolidate Tea Party (disenfranchised Southern) anger and further pressure Obama.

Seems like the same petroleum cabal that has always swirled around U.S. conspiracy events for the past 70 years.

Just wondering...