Haliburton Purchased Oil Cleanup Company 10 days before Gulf Spill

[RohanT]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63907A20100410

[Zippyjuan]

Based on information in the article you linked to, they are not an oil spill cleanup company.

a company that provides pressure control services for oil and gas wells,

[torchbearer]

Based on information in the article you linked to, they are not an oil spill cleanup company.

in order to clean up a blow-out, you have to get the well pressure under control.
if BP could send people to the bottom of the gulf, they may be able to find ways to neutralize the pressure.
that is what makes the oil flow upwards. it requires pressure.

[Zippyjuan]

Thank you for the info. Checked their site and found a bit more info too. . They do deal with trying to control blowout wells but it says nothing about cleanup of spills like the one in the Gulf:
http://www.bootsandcoots.com/

Response
Whether it’s a blowout or a complex pressure control problem, your call to Boots & Coots will be answered by the most highly capable group of well control specialists and engineers in the world. Our senior specialists have been in the business for over 30 years and have the distinction of handling the industry’s most complex blowouts and well fires in history. From the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter to Piper Alpha and Iraq to Nigeria, our company specialists have a perfect record of safely capping and killing wells out of control. We know every job is important, and we are ready to “suit up and show up” wherever and whenever we are needed.

[michaelwise]

Goldman Sachs also went short oil stocks and there is this coincidence where the movie Knowing with Nicholas Cage foresaw the oil spill happening.
YouTube - "Knowing" movie and the Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico 2010.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmgeA3dr2uY)

[tangent4ronpaul]

Based on information in the article you linked to, they are not an oil spill cleanup company.

Really?


The second largest oilfield services company will create a new product service line combining its existing coiled tubing and hydraulic workover operations with Boots & Coots' intervention services and its pressure control business.

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[RohanT]

Haliburtons involved in the cement work on the downed rig

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1922613220100519

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63907A20100410

Boots N' Coots is a well control company, their primary job is not cleanup.

The company was named after the "right hand men" of Red Adair who started their own wild well control company back in the 80's IIRC.

[torchbearer]

Boots N' Coots is a well control company, their primary job is not cleanup.

The company was named after the "right hand men" of Red Adair who started their own wild well control company back in the 80's IIRC.

Didn't Boots N' Coots put out all the oil well fires in Iraq?

[Anti Federalist]

Didn't Boots N' Coots put out all the oil well fires in Iraq?

I think so, and they called in Red himself, out of retirement, IIRC.

Ever see Hellfighters?

[RohanT]

Didn't Boots N' Coots put out all the oil well fires in Iraq?

They contracted with haliburton over in the middle east.

They recently get bought out, and a rig whose cement structure haliburton was working on explodes.

What a lovely coincidence. Pina colada anyone?