BP: Halliburton ‘Destroyed Evidence’ Over Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Blast To Protect Itself From Blame

… destroying the evidence.

Flashback:

– US Presidential Panel: Halliburton Knew Cement Mixed For BP Blowout Well Was Unstable

– Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: The Halliburton Connection:

The company acknowledged Friday that it had completed the final cementing of the oil well and pipe just 20 hours before the blowout last week.

And don’t forget this fact (!!!):

“Just eight days before the Gulf blow-out, Halliburton also announced that it had agreed to buy Boots & Coots for $240.4 million. Who are Boots & Coots?

The world’s largest oil-spill clean-up company which also deals with oil and gas well fires and blowouts.

What an incredibly fortunate coincidence. What a slice of luck.”

And why is it that videos like this one continue to be removed from YouTube?

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– 30 Facts – The Rothschild Bankers Planned The Gulf Disaster

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–BP says Halliburton ‘destroyed evidence’ over Deepwater blast to protect itself from blame (Daily Mail, Dec. 6, 2011):

Oil giant BP has accused Halliburton of intentionally destroying vital evidence relating to last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Eleven men died in the oil well blast which led to the world’s largest accidental offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil services group Halliburton was one of the principal contractors on the project at the time of the accident.

It had been working on cement to seal the well to prevent leaks of oil and gas, the results of which BP says have been obscured.

Today, BP asked a federal judge to punish the firm.

The accusation raises the stakes ahead of a trial, expected at the end of February, to assign blame and damages for the April 2010 explosion.

Citing recent depositions and Halliburton’s own documents, BP said Halliburton ‘intentionally’ destroyed the results of slurry testing for the well.

BP said it was done in part to ‘eliminate any risk that this evidence would be used against it at trial’.

The oil company also said Halliburton appeared to have lost computer evidence showing how the cement performed, with Halliburton maintaining that the information is simply ‘gone’.

BP asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans, who oversees spill litigation, to sanction Halliburton by ruling that Halliburton’s slurry design was ‘unstable,’ a finding of fact that could be used at trial.

It also asked Barbier to direct that forensic experts be hired to find the missing computer data.

‘These remedies are amply warranted in law and by principles of fair play, and they are essential to ensure this court’s trial is not tainted by Halliburton’s misconduct,’ BP said in the filing.

Halliburton is the world’s second-largest oilfield services provider. A spokeswoman, Beverly Blohm Stafford, said the Houston-based company is reviewing BP’s filing.

‘We believe that the conclusion that BP is asking the court to draw is without merit and we look forward to contesting their motion in court,’ she said.

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig’s explosion on April 20, 2010, caused 11 deaths, and brought tens of billions of dollars of lawsuits. Halliburton has accused BP of fraud and defamation, among other claims.

BP has also sued Transocean Ltd, which owned the rig, and Cameron International Corp, which made a blowout preventer.

In October, Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned 25 per cent of the well, agreed to pay BP $4billion toward clean-up costs and victims compensation.

BP has also reached settlements with Mitsui & Co, whose MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC venture was a drilling partner, and Weatherford International Ltd, which provided equipment used in the well.

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