http://www.mail.com/companies/12876-halliburton-company.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/companies/12876-halliburton-company.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070886-polands-shale-gas-hopes-suffer-blow.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — News that Talisman Energy Inc. and Marathon Oil are pulling out of exploration for shale gas in Poland is a blow to the country's hopes that its deposits of the hydrocarbon will soon cut its dependence on Russian supplies and support the weakening economy. Canada's Talisman and U.S. Marathon Oil said Wednesday they had not found enou... Wed, 08 May 2013 19:03:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070886-polands-shale-gas-hopes-suffer-blow.html 2013-05-08T19:03:17Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2053146-bp-q1-profits-surge-russian-joint-venture-sale.html LONDON (AP) — BP's sale of its Russian joint venture helped it more than triple first-quarter profits, the oil company said Tuesday in a further sign that its disposal program in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster is on track. It said its replacement cost profits rose to $16.5 billion from the $4.7 billion for the same period last year, lar... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:12:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2053146-bp-q1-profits-surge-russian-joint-venture-sale.html 2013-04-30T11:12:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2036842-halliburton-seeking-settlement-gulf-oil-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP's cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 announced Monday that it is trying to negotiate a settlement over its role in the disaster, a focus of trial testimony that ended last week. Halliburton Chief Financial Officer Mark McCollum said during a conference call to discuss first-quarter earni... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:24:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2036842-halliburton-seeking-settlement-gulf-oil-spill.html 2013-04-23T02:24:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036504-stocks-edge-higher-energy-stocks-rebound.html NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher on Monday as energy stocks got a lift from recovering oil prices. The energy industry climbed 1 percent, making it the biggest gainer in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Oil rose 75 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $88.76 a barrel Monday. A week ago, crude fell below $90 a barrel for the first time this year after reports that... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:44:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036504-stocks-edge-higher-energy-stocks-rebound.html 2013-04-22T21:44:45Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036180-halliburton-posts-1q-loss-litigation-charges.html DALLAS (AP) — Halliburton Co. said Monday that it lost money in the first quarter after adding $637 million to the reserve it has to cover litigation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It's also in talks to settle most claims related to the spill. The Houston company lost $18 million in the first quarter, or 2 cents per share. Excluding the money set... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:21:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2036180-halliburton-posts-1q-loss-litigation-charges.html 2013-04-22T21:21:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2033720-florida-4th-to-sue-bp-oil-spill.html TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit Saturday against oil company BP and cement contractor Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, becoming the fourth state to seek damages for the 2010 disaster. The suit, among other things, faults BP for not changing the batteries on the rig's blowout preventer. Halliburton was blamed ... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:53:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2033720-florida-4th-to-sue-bp-oil-spill.html 2013-04-20T19:53:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2033548-florida-sues-bp-3-year-anniversary-oil-spill.html TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against BP and Halliburton on the three-year anniversary of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Pam Bondi filed the 40-page lawsuit Saturday in federal court in Panama City. It comes a day after Mississippi officials filed their own lawsuit over the spill before the three-year statute of limitat... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:14:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2033548-florida-sues-bp-3-year-anniversary-oil-spill.html 2013-04-20T16:14:08Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2030626-3-years-later-oil-spill-cleanup-study-carries.html BAY JIMMY, La. (AP) — At first glance, the marshy, muddy coastline of Bay Jimmy in southeast Louisiana appears healthy three years after the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Brown pelicans and seagulls cruise the shoreline, plucking fish and crabs from the water. Snails hold firm to tall blades of marsh grass. Underneath the surface, environmentalists a... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:33:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2030626-3-years-later-oil-spill-cleanup-study-carries.html 2013-04-19T20:33:28Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2026320-testimony-ends-1st-phase-bp-oil-spill-trial.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Testimony concluded Wednesday for the first phase of a high-stakes trial over the deadly 2010 rig explosion that led to the nation's worst offshore oil spill, but the presiding judge didn't immediately rule in the case. After BP PLC wrapped up its defense on the trial's 29th day, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier announced he would give ... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:23:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2026320-testimony-ends-1st-phase-bp-oil-spill-trial.html 2013-04-17T23:23:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2021218-bp-manager-testifies-trial-gulf-oil-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP team leader who supervised managers on the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 testified Monday that he was frustrated by last-minute changes to the drilling project, but didn't have any safety concerns before the deadly blast. John Guide was BP's wells team leader for the Deepwater Horizon project and supervised tw... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:45:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2021218-bp-manager-testifies-trial-gulf-oil-spill.html 2013-04-15T21:45:21Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015992-energy-materials-stocks-slid-commodity-slump.html NEW YORK (AP) — Energy and mining company stocks are sliding in midday trading as prices for crude oil and other commodities fall sharply. The broader market also fell, but not as much. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 46 points at 14,818 at midday Friday, a loss of 0.3 percent. In the first four days of the week the Dow had risen 300 points, or ... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:03:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2015992-energy-materials-stocks-slid-commodity-slump.html 2013-04-12T16:03:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2005280-bp-to-call-1st-witness-trial-gulf-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP witnesses are scheduled to start appearing Monday. They follow testimony presented by Halliburton, BP PLC's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project. Hallibur... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:53:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2005280-bp-to-call-1st-witness-trial-gulf-spill.html 2013-04-08T12:53:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1978406-judge-sides-with-wyoming-fracking-chemical-suit.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to obtain lists of the ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids. Environmental groups had requested the ingredient lists from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, arguing that the public needs to know what chem... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:08:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1978406-judge-sides-with-wyoming-fracking-chemical-suit.html 2013-03-25T19:08:52Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1968124-claims-bp-contractors-dismissed-trial.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge conducting a trial to assign fault for the nation's worst offshore oil spill dismissed claims Wednesday against a BP contractor and the company that made a key safety device on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the disaster. After plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case Wednesday, U.S. Dist... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:05:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1968124-claims-bp-contractors-dismissed-trial.html 2013-03-20T22:05:45Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1965766-transocean-ceo-rig-workers.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Transocean employees should have done more to detect signs of trouble before the company's drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, killing 11 workers and triggering the nation's worst offshore oil spill, the company's chief executive testified Tuesday. But the Swiss-based drilling company's own investigation of the disaster... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:01:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1965766-transocean-ceo-rig-workers.html 2013-03-19T22:01:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1962416-companies-defense-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Workers on the drilling rig that exploded at the outset of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill catastrophe were "trying to get it right" as they monitored BP's well for signs of trouble before the blast, an expert witness for the company that owned the rig testified Monday. "They just misinterpreted what they were seeing," well control ex... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:26:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1962416-companies-defense-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html 2013-03-18T21:26:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1955266-gulf-spill-trial-contractor-finds-cement-samples.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon rig has discovered cement samples possibly tied to the ill-fated drilling project that weren't turned over to the Justice Department after the 2010 oil spill, a lawyer for the contractor said Thursday. Halliburton lawyer Donald Godwin told U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier that the company ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:56:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1955266-gulf-spill-trial-contractor-finds-cement-samples.html 2013-03-14T20:56:16Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1952866-worker-rig-was-bustling-bp-well-blowout.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A worker who survived the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon testified Wednesday that a flurry of activity on the drilling rig hindered his ability to monitor BP's well for signs of trouble before the April 2010 blowout. Joseph Keith, the second blast survivor to testify in person at a federal trial over the disaster, said he nev... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:40:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1952866-worker-rig-was-bustling-bp-well-blowout.html 2013-03-13T23:40:24Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1924738-stocks-close-higher-despite-looming-budget-cuts.html NEW YORK (AP) — An encouraging manufacturing report nudged the stock market higher Friday, giving it a slight gain for the week, even as a deadline for avoiding sweeping government spending cuts loomed. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35.17 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 14,089.66. It was down as much as 117 points in early trading but recovere... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:47:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1924738-stocks-close-higher-despite-looming-budget-cuts.html 2013-03-01T21:47:45Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1918434-bp-exec-outlines-internal-probe-gulf-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once the object of ridicule and focus of outrage after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, former BP chief executive Tony Hayward made a cameo appearance Wednesday in a trial to decide how much blame the company must shoulder for the disaster. Hayward didn't attend in person. Instead, he showed up just briefly on a videotape in wh... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:21:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1918434-bp-exec-outlines-internal-probe-gulf-spill.html 2013-02-28T02:21:52Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1917556-bp-executive-testifies-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A ranking BP executive testified Tuesday that the London-based oil giant and its contractors share the responsibility for preventing blowouts like the one that killed 11 workers and spawned the nation's worst offshore oil spill in 2010. Lamar McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became th... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:54:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1917556-bp-executive-testifies-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html 2013-02-27T01:54:24Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915882-1st-witness-testifies-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest danger, an expert witness for people and businesses suing the company testified Tuesday. University of California-Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea was the fir... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:39:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915882-1st-witness-testifies-gulf-oil-spill-trial.html 2013-02-26T21:39:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1913604-high-stakes-trial-2010-gulf-oil-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP put profits ahead of safety and bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening of a trial that could result in the oil company and its partners being forced to pay tens of billions of dollars more in damages. The London-based oil giant ackn... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:49:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1913604-high-stakes-trial-2010-gulf-oil-spill.html 2013-02-26T01:49:10Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1845488-halliburton-4q-tops-wall-street-expectations.html HOUSTON (AP) — Halliburton's net income for the fourth quarter fell 26 percent because of a decline in North America, where drilling activity slowed and the company has been forced to charge lower prices for its services. Still, the results beat Wall Street expectations and shares rose 5 percent. The world's second-largest oilfield services company earned... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1845488-halliburton-4q-tops-wall-street-expectations.html 2013-01-25T21:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1782944-judge-oks-settlement-bp-gulf-class-action-suit.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has given final approval to BP's settlement with a bulk of businesses and individuals who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP PLC has estimated it will pay $7.8 billion to resolve economic and medical claims from more than 100,000 businesses and individuals hurt by the nation's worst offsho... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1782944-judge-oks-settlement-bp-gulf-class-action-suit.html 2012-12-22T12:09:00Z